Fortul
Fortul is one of the seven municipalities of the Colombian department of Arauca. It limits to the north with Saravena; to the south with Tame; to the east with Arauquita and to the west with Güicán.
- Type: Town with 18,900 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Arauca
- Also known as: “Fortoul”, “Fortul (belediye)”, “Fortul (Colombia)”, “Fortul belediyesi”, and “Municipio de Fortul”
Fortul
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Fortul, Arauca Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
6.79285° or 6° 47′ 34″ north
Longitude
-71.77439° or 71° 46′ 28″ west
Population
18,900
Elevation
241 metres (791 feet)
Open location code
67RCQ6VG+46
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Fortul” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fortul”
- Bulgarian: “Фортул”
- Cebuano: “Fortul”
- Chinese: “福尔图尔”
- Chinese: “福爾圖爾”
- Dutch: “Fortul”
- French: “Fortul”
- Galician: “Fortul”
- Georgian: “ფორტული”
- German: “Fortul”
- Iloko: “Fortul”
- Irish: “Fortul”
- Italian: “Fortul”
- Malay: “Fortul”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fortul”
- Persian: “فورتول”
- Polish: “Fortul”
- Portuguese: “Fortul”
- Russian: “Фортул”
- Russian: “Фортуль”
- Scots: “Fortul”
- Spanish: “Fortul”
- Swedish: “Fortul”
- Tagalog: “Fortul”
- Turkish: “Fortul”
- Urdu: “فورتول”
- Vietnamese: “Fortul”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fortul”
- “Fortul”
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