Vaupés Department
Vaupés is a department of southeastern Colombia in the jungle covered Amazonía Region. It is located in the southeast part of the country, bordering Brazil to the east, the department of Amazonas to the south, Caquetá to the west, and Guaviare, and Guainía to the north; covering a total area of 54,135 km2.
- Type: department of Colombia with 40,800 residents
- Description: department of Colombia
- Also known as: “CO-VAU”, “Comisaria del Vaupes”, “Comisaria del Vaupés”, “Comisaría del Vaupes”, “Comisaría del Vaupés”, “Departamento de Vaupes”, “Departamento de Vaupés”, “Departamento del Vaupes”, “Departamento Vaupes”, “Departamento Vaupés”, “departamentu de Vaupés”, “Departement Vaupés”, “Departma Vaupés”, “Dipartimento di Vaupes”, “Roinn Vaupés”, “Vaupenses”, “Vaupes Department”, “Vaupesas”, “واوپیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, “వాపెస్ విభాగం”, and “바우페스”
- Neighbors: Amazonas
Vaupés Department
- Location: Colombia, South America
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Latitude
0.75° or 0° 45′ north
Longitude
-70.75° or 70° 45′ west
Population
40,800
Elevation
395 metres (1,296 feet)
Open location code
67GFQ722+22
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Vaupés Department” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vaupés (departement)”
- Afrikaans: “Vaupés”
- Arabic: “إدارة فاوبيس”
- Asturian: “Vaupés”
- Azerbaijani: “Vaupes”
- Basque: “Vaupés”
- Bengali: “ভুপ্স বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Vaupés”
- Bulgarian: “Ваупес”
- Catalan: “Departament de Vaupés”
- Catalan: “Vaupés”
- Cebuano: “Departamento del Vaupés”
- Chinese: “沃佩斯省”
- Czech: “Vaupés”
- Danish: “Vaupés Department”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vaupes”
- Dutch: “Vaupés”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Vaŭpeso”
- Esperanto: “Vaŭpeso”
- Finnish: “Vaupés”
- French: “Vaupés”
- Galician: “Vaupés”
- Georgian: “ვაუპესის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento del Vaupés”
- Greek: “Βαουπές”
- Gujarati: “વોપેસ વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “ואופס”
- Hindi: “बाउपेस विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Vaupés megye”
- Iloko: “Departamento ti Vaupés”
- Iloko: “Vaupés”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Vaupés”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Vaupés”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Vaupés”
- Japanese: “バウペス県”
- Kannada: “ವೂಪೆಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “바우페스주”
- Ladino: “Vaupes”
- Latvian: “Vaupesas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Vaupeso departamentas”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Vaupés”
- Marathi: “वुप्स विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vaupés”
- Northern Frisian: “Vaupés (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Vaupés”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaupés”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vaupés-departementet”
- Norwegian: “Vaupés”
- Ossetian: “Ваупес”
- Persian: “بخش واوپس”
- Persian: “واوپس دپارتمنت”
- Polish: “Vaupés”
- Portuguese: “Vaupés”
- Quechua: “Vaupés suyu”
- Russian: “Ваупес”
- Samogitian: “Vaupesa departaments”
- Scots: “Vaupés Depairtment”
- Scots: “Vaupés”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vaupés”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaupés (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaupés”
- Sinhala: “වෞපේස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
- Sinhala: “වෞපේස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovenian: “Departamento del Vaupés”
- Spanish: “Vaupés”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴼⴰⵡⴱⵉⵙ”
- Swedish: “Vaupés”
- Tagalog: “Vaupés”
- Tamil: “வாயுப்ஸ் துறை”
- Telugu: “వాపెస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเบาเปส”
- Turkish: “Vaupés”
- Ukrainian: “Ваупес”
- Urdu: “واوپیس محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Vaupés”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vaupés”
- Wayuu: “Waupeesü”
- Western Armenian: “Վաուբես”
- Western Panjabi: “واؤپیس ڈیپاٹمنٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “沃佩斯省”
- Yoruba: “Vaupés Department”
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Places to explore: San Pedro and Circasia.
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