Colón may refer to:
Places
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Colón, Entre Ríos
Colón is a city in the . It is located in the east of the province, on the western shore of the Uruguay River, and has about 23,000 inhabitants (). It lies opposite Paysandú, Uruguay, to which it is linked across the river by the General Artigas ...
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Colón Department, Córdoba
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Colón Department, Entre Ríos
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Colón, Buenos Aires
Colón is a small city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Colón Partido.
The town is located in an agricultural area, the main areas of employment are in agriculture, the production of agricultural machiner ...
;Colombia
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Colón, Nariño
Colón is a municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in ...
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Colón, Putumayo
Colón is a town and municipality located in the Putumayo Department, Republic of Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Car ...
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Colón Department (Colombia)
;Costa Rica
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Ciudad Colón
;Cuba
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Colón, Cuba
Colón is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. The municipality has an area of and a population of about 71,000. The city proper, with a population of about 44,000, is the third-largest of its province.
History
The town wa ...
;El Salvador
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Colón, La Libertad
Colón is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.
Colón is surrounded by the municipalities of Santa Tecla, Quezaltepeque, San Juan Opico, Ciudad Arce, and Sacacoyo y Talnique. The municipality was previously known as El ...
;Honduras
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Colón Department (Honduras)
;Mexico
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Colón, Querétaro
Colón is a town in Colón Municipality of the State of Querétaro, Mexico. It is the only one in the country named after Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón, in Spanish). It's the state's third largest municipality, with 815 square kilomete ...
;Panama
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Colón, Panama
Colón () is a city and seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. Originally it was l ...
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Colón Province
Colón () is a province of Panama. The capital is the city of Colón. It covers an area of 4,575.5 sq.km, and the latest estimate of population (for 2019) is 294,060.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Panama.
Overview
This province h ...
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Plaza Colón
Plaza Colón is the main plaza in the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. This plaza and its fountain commemorate the explorer Christopher Columbus, whose name in Spanish was Cristóbal Colón. The plaza presents the traditional urban relationship ...
, in Mayagüez
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Plaza de Colón (Madrid)
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Colón (Metrovalencia)
Colón ( ca-valencia, Colom, mostly referred as ''Colón'') is a metro station of the Metrovalencia network in Valencia, Spain
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, station in Valencia
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Colón Centro y Noroeste, barrio of Montevideo
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Colón Sudeste, barrio of Montevideo
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Colón, Uruguay, village in
Lavalleja Department
Lavalleja () is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Minas. It is located in the southeast of the country, bordered to the north by the department of Treinta y Tres to the east with Rocha, to the south with Canelones and Maldonado, and to ...
;Venezuela
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Colón, Venezuela
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Colón Municipality, Zulia in
Zulia State
Zulia State ( es, Estado Zulia, ; Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It ...
Football teams
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Club Atlético Colón
Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe (), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe , is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the First Division of the Argentine football league system, the Argentine Primera Divisi ...
, from Santa Fe, Argentina
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Colón Fútbol Club, a Uruguayan club
Other uses
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Colón (surname)
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Colón (currency)
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Costa Rican colón, currency of Costa Rica
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Salvadoran colón
The colón was the currency of El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when it was replaced by the U.S. dollar during the presidency of Francisco Flores. The colón was subdivided into 100 centavos and its ISO 4217 code was SVC. The plural is "''co ...
, former currency of El Salvador
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Preludio a Colón
''Preludio a Colón'' ( Prelude to Christopher Columbus), for soprano in fifths of a tone, flute, guitar, and violin in quarter tones, octavina in eighth-tones, and harp in sixteenth-tones, is a musical composition by the Mexican composer Juliá ...
'', a musical composition by
Julián Carrillo
Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer,Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). "Carrillo (Flores), Nabor" on ''Mexican Political Biographies, 1935–1993: Third Edition'', p. 121. . conductor, violin ...
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Teatro Colón
The Teatro Colón (Spanish: ''Columbus Theatre'') is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. According to a survey carried out by the acousti ...
, Buenos Aires, Argentina
See also
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The Colóns (disambiguation)
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Colon (disambiguation)
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Cologne (disambiguation)
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