Mocoa

Mocoa
Mocoa
Municipality and city
	Plaza Central Mocoa in 2013
	Flag Seal
	Nickname: The Head of Putumayo
	Location of the town and municipality of Mocoa in Putumayo Department.
	Coordinates: 1°09′0″N 76°38′51″W
Country	Colombia
Region	Amazonía Region
Department	Putumayo
Foundation	March 6, 1551
Government
• Mayor	Jose Antonio Castro
Area
• Municipality and city	1,305 km2 (504 sq mi)
• Urban	5.61 km2 (2.17 sq mi)
Elevation	604 m (1,982 ft)
Population (2018 census)[1]
• Municipality and city	56,398
• Density	43/km2 (110/sq mi)
• Urban	38,457
• Urban density	6,900/km2 (18,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-05 (Eastern Time Zone)

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).
Brodzinsky, Sibylla (2017-04-02). "Colombia landslide leaves at least 254 dead and hundreds missing". The Guardian. 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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[1] Citypopulation.de Population of Mocoa municipality with localities

[Obrien-2018-2] O'Brien, Colleen Alena (2018). A Grammatical Description of Kamsá, A Language Isolate of Colombia (PDF).

[3] Brodzinsky, Sibylla (2017-04-02). "Colombia landslide leaves at least 254 dead and hundreds missing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-04-03.

[CNN_-_01-04-2017-4] Brocchetto, Marilia; Ramos, Fernando; Sanchez, Ray. "Mudslides kill more than 200 people in Colombia". CNN. Retrieved 1 April 2017.