Gran Roque Island
Gran Roque is an island, one of the federal dependencies of Venezuela, located in the southeastern Caribbean Sea in the archipelago of Los Roques, which has 1.7 km2 in extent, where the majority of the population lives. Los Roques Airport is located by the sea, a few meters from the beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Venezuela
- Also known as: “El Gran Roque”, “El Roque”, and “Gran Roque”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gran Roque Lighthouse and Los Roques Airport.
Los Roques Airport
Aerodrome
Los Roques Airport is a small domestic airport on the El Gran Roque island in the Los Roques archipelago off the coast of mainland Venezuela, some 130 kilometres north of Caracas.
Cayos Francisquí
Island
Photo: M. Celeste Rabbat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cayos Francisquí also known as Cayos Franciskí, is the name of a group of Caribbean cays that form part of the Los Roques Archipelago National Park in northern Venezuela. Cayos Francisquí is situated 3 km east of Gran Roque Island.
Gran Roque Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Gran Roque Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Isla El Gran Roque”
- Chinese: “格兰罗克岛”
- Dutch: “Gran Roque”
- French: “Gran Roque”
- Japanese: “グラン・ロク島”
- Japanese: “グラン・ロケ島”
- Latvian: “Granroke”
- Portuguese: “Gran Roque”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gran Roque”
- Sinhala: “ග්රාන් රොක්, වෙනිසියුලාව”
- Spanish: “Gran Roque”
- Spanish: “Isla El Gran Roque”
- Spanish: “Isla Gran Roque”
- Swedish: “Gran Roque”
- “Gran Roque”
- “Isla El Gran Roque”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Los Roques Light and Cayo Pirata.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gran Roque Island”. Photo: Berrucomons, CC BY-SA 3.0.