South AmericaColombiaCesar Department
Agustín Codazzi
Cesar Department, Colombia · South America
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Agustín Codazzi sits on the route: 40 minutes from San Diego.
Agustín Codazzi is in Cesar Department, Colombia, with about 51,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is San Diego, about 34 km away.
Agustín Codazzi, or simply Codazzi, is a city and municipality of the Department of Cesar in Colombia. It was founded in 1784 by the Spanish Captain Salvador Felix de Arias with the name of El Pueblito del Espíritu Santo but later renamed after the Italian cartographer Agostino Codazzi, who died in this place inRead more
1859. It is located along the Serranía del Perijá, covering some of the area pertaining to the valley of the Cesar River.
In 1958 Codazzi was proclaimed a municipality due to its rapid population increase in the 1950s and 1960s, triggered by an agricultural boom of cotton, that attracted people searching for jobs from many departments of Colombia; mainly from Tolima, Huila, Santander, North Santander, Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Bolivar and Magdalena.
When this boom ended, the agroindustry opted for other products like palm, sugar cane, liquors and milk products. In 2005 the municipality of Codazzi had approximately 52,219 inhabitants.
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Agustín Codazzi is in Cesar Department, Colombia, about 34 km from San Diego.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 51,478
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- Cesar Department
- Timezone
- America/Bogota
- Coordinates
- 10.0367, -73.2356
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