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San José de la Montaña

Colombian municipality of the department of Antioquia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1655028 ↗
Source-derived summary

San José de la Montaña is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia, part of the subregion of Northern Antioquia.

Traditional celebrations held in San José de la Montaña include the Fiestas Patronales de San José and the Fiestas de la Virgen del Carmen.

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The public source identifies “San José de la Montaña” as colombian municipality of the department of Antioquia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around José, Montaña and Colombian.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with José, Montaña and Colombian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “San José de la Montaña” 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.