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Ceycén Island

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ5921489 ↗
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Ceycén Island (Isla Ceycén, sometimes spelled as Ceicén) is a coral island located in the Archipelago of San Bernardo, Gulf of Morrosquillo, Caribbean Sea. It is governed by Colombia, and is a part of the Colombian Bolívar Department.

Ceycén Island has a lighthouse that is 24 m (79 ft) in height.

See also

Caribbean region of Colombia

Insular region of Colombia

List of islands of South America

References

"Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute". Volume 58 (in Spanish). Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute. 2007. p. 394. Retrieved 10 January 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ceycén Island” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.