page_title: Simacota
hierarchical_section_title: Simacota
caption_attribution_description: Español: Vista Panoramica de Simacota, desde una montaña cercana.
context_page_description: Simacota is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. In 1965, the city had briefly been invaded by more than 100 members of the anti-government Ejército de Liberación Nacional, the "National Liberation Army" and "captured the public imagination" in its first act as a new guerrilla organization. The invaders murdered three of Simacota's four policemen, robbed the local bank, harassed the townspeople and looted the local pharmacy of its medicines, before being driven out by the Colombian Army. Only three of the 100 ELN men were captured.
context_section_description: Simacota is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.  In 1965, the city had briefly been invaded by more than 100 members of the anti-government Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), the "National Liberation Army")  and "captured the public imagination" in its first act as a new guerrilla organization.  The invaders murdered three of Simacota's four policemen, robbed the local bank, harassed the townspeople and looted the local pharmacy of its medicines, before being driven out by the Colombian Army.  Only three of the 100 ELN men were captured.
caption: View of Simacota
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