Orchilla Island
La Orchila Island is an island and a military base off the coast of Venezuela, north of Caracas. It has numerous beaches, including one where the sand is markedly pink.- Type: Island
- Description: federal dependency of Venezuela
- Also known as: “Isla La Orchilla”, “Isla Orchila”, “Isla Orchilla”, “La Orchila”, “La Orchila Island”, “La Orchila-ön”, and “ラ・オルチラ島”
Orchilla Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.79584° or 11° 47′ 45″ north
Longitude
-66.13812° or 66° 8′ 17″ west
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
773MQVW6+8Q
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Orchilla Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Orçila adası”
- Belarusian: “Орчыла”
- Catalan: “la Orchila”
- Cebuano: “Isla La Orchila”
- Chinese: “拉奧奇拉島”
- Czech: “La Orchila”
- Dutch: “La Orchila”
- Dutch: “Orchila”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا اوركيلا”
- French: “La Orchila”
- Galician: “A Orchila”
- Galician: “La Orchila”
- Georgian: “ორჩილა”
- German: “La Orchila”
- Greek: “Λα Ορτσίλα Νήσος”
- Greek: “Ορτσίγια Νήσος”
- Hebrew: “אורצ’ילה”
- Italian: “La Orchila”
- Japanese: “オルチラ島”
- Lithuanian: “La Orčila”
- Luxembourgish: “Isla La Orchila”
- Northern Frisian: “La Orchila”
- Polish: “La Orchila”
- Romanian: “Insula Orchila”
- Russian: “Орчила”
- Sinhala: “ලා ඕර්චිලා දූපත, වෙනිසියුලාව”
- Spanish: “Isla La Orchila”
- Swedish: “La Orchila”
- Swedish: “La Orchilaön”
- Turkish: “La Orchila Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Орчіла”
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