Punta Cardón
Punta Cardón is a town and parish in the Carirubana autonomous municipality of Falcón state, Venezuela. The town was once a poor fishing community on the Gulf of Coro on the northwest coast of Venezuela.- Type: Suburb with 114,000 residents
- Description: town in Falcón, Venezuela
- Also known as: “Cardon”, “Cordon”, “El Cardón”, “Puerto Cardon”, and “Punta Cardon”
Punta Cardón
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Carirubana Municipality, Falcón, Venezuela, South America
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Latitude
11.6175° or 11° 37′ 3″ north
Longitude
-70.2117° or 70° 12′ 42″ west
Population
114,000
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
UN/LOCODE
VE PCN
Open location code
773FJQ9Q+28
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Punta Cardón” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Punta Cardón”
- French: “Punta Cardón”
- Lithuanian: “Punta Kardonas”
- Polish: “Punta Cardón”
- Russian: “Пунта-Кардон”
- Spanish: “Punta Cardón”
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