Mocoa is the capital of Putumayo Department in the Amazonia region of Colombia, lying on the fringes of the Andes in the Caqueta River basin and surrounded by Amazon rainforest. Founded in 1551, the municipality had approximately 38,457 residents in 2018, up from about 27,104 in 2005. On March 31, 2017, flooding and mudslides in the city killed more than 254 people. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. GeoNames: Mocoa
GeoNames geonameid 3674654 (Mocoa), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Mocoa (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 1.149167, longitude -76.646389
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 604 m
P2046 (area)
area 1030.0 sq km
P571 (inception)
inception 1551
View the Source3. GeoNames: Mocoa - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3674654
1.15284 -76.65208 P PPLA CO 22 86001 56398 612 America/Bogota
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 612 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 1.25, -76.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 1.25, -76.75
1.25 -76.75 Cfb
Mocoa (Wikipedia)
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Mocoa (Spanish pronunciation: [moˈko.a]) (Kamëntšá: Shatjok) is a municipality and capital city of the department of Putumayo in Colombia.
- In Group: Cities of South America (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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