Meta River
The Meta River is a major left tributary of the Orinoco River in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela, South America. The Meta originates in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes and flows through the Meta Department, Colombia as the confluence of the Humea, Guatiquía and Guayuriba rivers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the Orinoco in the Llanos of central Colombia
- Also known as: “Rio Meta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Germán Olano Airport.
Germán Olano Airport
Aerodrome
Germán Olano Airport is an airport serving Puerto Carreño, the capital of Vichada Department in Colombia. It is also known as Puerto Carreño Airport. The airport is 1.5 kilometres west of and parallels the Orinoco River, locally Colombia's border with Venezuela. Germán Olano Airport is situated 3 km southwest of Meta River.
Meta River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Colombia, South America
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Satellite Map
Discover Meta River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Meta River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Meta”
- Basque: “Meta ibaia”
- Basque: “Meta”
- Belarusian: “Rio Meta”
- Belarusian: “Мета”
- Bulgarian: “Мета (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Мета”
- Catalan: “Meta”
- Cebuano: “Río Meta”
- Chinese: “梅塔河”
- Chuvash: “Мета”
- Croatian: “Meta”
- Czech: “Meta”
- Dutch: “Meta”
- French: “río Meta”
- French: “Río Meta”
- Galician: “Río Meta”
- Georgian: “მეტა”
- German: “Río Meta”
- Hindi: “मेता नदी”
- Irish: “Abhainn Meta”
- Italian: “Meta”
- Japanese: “メタ川”
- Korean: “메타강”
- Lithuanian: “Meta”
- Mingrelian: “მეტა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “მეტა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meta”
- Norwegian: “Meta”
- Polish: “Meta”
- Portuguese: “Rio Meta”
- Russian: “Мета”
- Serbian: “Мета”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meta”
- South Azerbaijani: “متا چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Meta”
- Spanish: “Río Meta”
- Swedish: “Río Meta”
- Turkish: “Meta Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Meta Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Мета”
- Venetian: “Fiume Meta”
- Welsh: “Afon Meta”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Meta River”. Photo: ixitixel, CC BY-SA 2.5.