Mocoa
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Mocoa (Spanish pronunciation: [moˈko.a]) (Kamsá: Shatjok[2]) is a municipality and capital city of the department of Putumayo in Colombia.
The city is located in the northwest of the Putumayo department. The municipality borders the departments of Nariño to the west and Cauca to the north.
On March 31, 2017, mudslides in Mocoa left more than 254[3] people dead, and hundreds missing.[4]
References
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of Mocoa municipality with localities
- ^ O'Brien, Colleen Alena (2018). A Grammatical Description of Kamsá, A Language Isolate of Colombia (PDF).
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
- ^ Brocchetto, Marilia; Ramos, Fernando; Sanchez, Ray. "Mudslides kill more than 200 people in Colombia". CNN. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
External links
- (in Spanish) Mocoa official website
- (in Spanish) Mocoa official website 2
- (in Spanish) Territorial-Environmental Information System of Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC website
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