Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands

Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands is a municipality within the department of , consisting of , , and several uninhabited cayes to the North and East, with a population of 5,011 as of.
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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.

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is a Caribbean island, and a part of the San Andres and Archipelago. It is politically a part of Colombia, but is geographically closer to Nicaragua.

Island
Photo: Roberto San Andrés, CC0.
is a small Colombian island in the . It belongs to the San Andrés y Providencia Department of Colombia and is the northernmost island politically part of .

Aerodrome
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is an airport serving Providencia Island, . The airport is located in the north east side of the island, in the limits of the Old Providence McBean Lagoon National Natural Park. is situated 3½ km southeast of Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands.

Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands

Latitude
13.3848° or 13° 23′ 5″ north
Longitude
-81.3747° or 81° 22′ 29″ west
Population
4,930
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
Open location code
765W9JMG+W4
Geo­Names ID
3671718
Wiki­data ID
Q3408299
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“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”
  • Urdu: “پروودینسیا اور سانتا کاتالینا جزائر”
  • “Providencia”

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