Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands
The islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina, literally the islands of Providence and Saint Catherine, is a municipality within the department of The Raizal Islands, on the northern coast of Providencia Island which has a population of 5,011 as of, and receives just 15,000 visitors per year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Colombia with 4,930 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina
- Also known as: “Providencia” and “Santa Isabel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Providencia and Santa Catalina Island.
Providencia
Providencia is a Caribbean island, and a part of the San Andres and Providencia Archipelago. It is politically a part of Colombia, but is geographically closer to Nicaragua.Santa Catalina Island
Island
Photo: Roberto San Andrés, CC0.
Santa Catalina Island is a small Colombian island in the Caribbean Sea. It belongs to the San Andrés y Providencia Department of Colombia and is the northernmost island politically part of South America.
El Embrujo Airport
Aerodrome
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El Embrujo Airport is an airport serving Providencia Island, Colombia. The airport is located in the north east side of the island, in the limits of the Old Providence McBean Lagoon National Natural Park. El Embrujo Airport is situated 3½ km southeast of Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands.
Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Providencia y Santa Catalina Islas (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Providencia y Santa Catalina Islas”
- Basque: “Providencia eta Santa Catalina uharteak”
- Cebuano: “Providencia”
- Dutch: “Providencia en Santa Catalina-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Providencia y Santa Catalina”
- French: “Providencia y Santa Catalina”
- Galician: “Providencia y Santa Catalina”
- Irish: “Providencia”
- Spanish: “Providencia y Santa Catalina Islas”
- Spanish: “Providencia”
- Swedish: “Providencia”
- Turkish: “Providencia (Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina)”
- Turkish: “Providencia (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Providencia belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Providencia y Santa Catalina”
- Turkish: “Providencia, Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina”
- Turkish: “Providencia”
- “Providencia”
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