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Putumayo Department

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  • Type: State with 378,000 residents
  • Description: department of Colombia
  • Also known as: “Comisaría del Putumayo”, “Comisaría Especial del Putumayo”, “Intendencia del Putumayo”, and “Putumayo”
  • Neighbors: and

Putumayo Department

Latitude
0.5° or 0° 30′ north
Longitude
-76° or 76° west
Population
378,000
Elevation
254 metres (833 feet)
Open location code
67G5GX2X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306394564
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3671178
Wiki­data ID
Q232953
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Putumayo Department” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Putumayo (departement)”
  • Afrikaans: “Putumayo”
  • Arabic: “إدارة بوتومايو”
  • Asturian: “departamentu de Putumayo”
  • Asturian: “Putumayo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Putumayo”
  • Basque: “Putumayo”
  • Belarusian: “Путумая”
  • Bengali: “পুতোমাইয়ো বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Putumayo”
  • Bulgarian: “Путумайо”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Putumayo”
  • Catalan: “Putumayo”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento del Putumayo”
  • Chinese: “Putumayo”
  • Chinese: “普图马约省”
  • Chinese: “普圖馬約省”
  • Croatian: “Putumayo”
  • Czech: “Putumayo”
  • Danish: “Putumayo Department”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Putumayo”
  • Dutch: “Putumayo”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Putumajo”
  • Esperanto: “Putumajo”
  • Finnish: “Putumayo”
  • French: “Département de Putumayo”
  • French: “Putumayo”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Putumayo”
  • Galician: “Putumayo”
  • Georgian: “პუტუმაიოს დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “CO-PUT”
  • German: “Departamento de Putumayo”
  • Greek: “Πουτουμάγιο”
  • Gujarati: “પુટુમેયો વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “פוטומאיו”
  • Hebrew: “פוטומיו”
  • Hindi: “पुटुमाओ विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Putumayo megye”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Putumayo”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Putumayo”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Putumayo”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Putumayo”
  • Japanese: “プトゥマージョ県”
  • Japanese: “プトゥマヨ県”
  • Kannada: “ಪುಟುಮಾಯಿ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “푸투마요”
  • Korean: “푸투마요주”
  • Ladino: “Putumayo”
  • Latin: “Putumayo”
  • Latvian: “Putumajo departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Putumajo departamentas”
  • Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Putumayo”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Putumayo”
  • Marathi: “पुत्तुमा विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Putumayo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Putumayo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Putumayo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Putumayo-departementet”
  • Norwegian: “Putumayo”
  • Ossetian: “Путумайо”
  • Persian: “بخش پوتومایو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان پوتومایو”
  • Polish: “Putumayo”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Putumayo”
  • Portuguese: “Putumayo”
  • Quechua: “Putumayo suyu”
  • Quechua: “Putumayu suyu”
  • Russian: “Путумайо”
  • Samogitian: “Putumaja departaments”
  • Scots: “Putumayo Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Putumayo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Putumayo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Putumayo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Putumayo (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Putumayo”
  • Sinhala: “පුටුමායෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “පුටුමායෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Putumayo”
  • Spanish: “Putumayenses”
  • Spanish: “Putumayo”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴱⵓⵜⵓⵎⴰⵢⵓ”
  • Swedish: “Putumayo”
  • Tagalog: “Putumayo”
  • Tamil: “புதுமையோ துறை”
  • Telugu: “పుటుమాయో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “పుటుమాయో విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดปูตูมาโย”
  • Turkish: “Putumayo”
  • Ukrainian: “Путумайо”
  • Urdu: “پوتامایو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “پوتامایو محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Putumayo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Putumayo Department”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Putumayo”
  • Wayuu: “Putumaaya”
  • Western Armenian: “Բուդումայիօ”
  • Western Panjabi: “پوتومایو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “普图马约省”
  • Yoruba: “Putumayo Department”
  • “Putumaja departaments”

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