Vigía del Fuerte
Vigía del Fuerte is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. It is part of the Urabá Antioquia sub-region. The town is on the eastern bank of the Atrato River, which locally forms the border between the Antioquia and Chocó Departments of Colombia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,620 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Antioquia
- Also known as: “Guayabal” and “Vigia del Fuerte”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vigía del Fuerte Airport.
Vigía del Fuerte Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Luukslegers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vigía del Fuerte Airport is an airstrip serving the river town of Vigía del Fuerte and the surrounding area, in the Antioquia Department of Colombia. The runway is on the eastern bank of the Atrato River, 2 kilometres upstream, south of the town. Vigía del Fuerte Airport is situated 2½ km south of Vigía del Fuerte.
Vigía del Fuerte
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Vigía del Fuerte, Antioquia, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
6.58963° or 6° 35′ 23″ northLongitude
-76.89622° or 76° 53′ 46″ westPopulation
5,620Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
67R5H4Q3+VGOpenStreetMap ID
node 703173746OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3666042Wikidata ID
Q1655819
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Vigía del Fuerte” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Vigía del Fuerte (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Cebuano: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Chinese: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Chinese: “比希亚德尔富埃尔特”
- Chinese: “比希亞德爾富埃爾特”
- Dutch: “Vigia del Fuerte”
- Dutch: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- French: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Galician: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Georgian: “ვიხია-დელ-ფუერტე”
- Iloko: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Interlingue: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Irish: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Italian: “Vigia del Fuerte”
- Italian: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Japanese: “ビヒア・デル・フエルテ”
- Kotava: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Malay: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Persian: “ویگیا دل فورته”
- Polish: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Portuguese: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Romanian: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Russian: “Вихия-дель-Фуэрте”
- Spanish: “Vigia del Fuerte”
- Spanish: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Swedish: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Tagalog: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Turkish: “Vigia del Fuerte (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Vigía del Fuerte (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Vigia del Fuerte belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Vigía del Fuerte belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Uzbek: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Vietnamese: “Vigía del Fuerte”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vigía del Fuerte”
- “Vigía del Fuerte”
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