Cauca River
The Cauca River is a river in Colombia that lies between the Occidental and Central cordilleras. From its headwaters in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popayán, it joins the Magdalena River near Magangué in Bolívar Department, and the combined river eventually flows out into the Caribbean Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jaime Henao Támesis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Colombia
- Also known as: “Cauca”
Cauca River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Colombia, South America
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Satellite Map
Discover Cauca River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Cauca River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Cauca”
- Azerbaijani: “Kauka çayı”
- Basque: “Cauca ibaia”
- Basque: “Cauca”
- Belarusian: “Каўка”
- Belarusian: “Рака Каўка”
- Bengali: “কাউকা নদী”
- Breton: “Cauca”
- Breton: “Stêr Cauca”
- Bulgarian: “Каука (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Каука”
- Catalan: “riu Cauca”
- Catalan: “Riu Cauca”
- Cebuano: “Río Cauca”
- Chinese: “考卡河”
- Chuvash: “Каука”
- Croatian: “Cauca (rijeka)”
- Croatian: “Cauca”
- Czech: “Cauca”
- Dutch: “Cauca”
- Dutch: “Rio Cauca”
- Esperanto: “Kaŭko”
- French: “Cauca”
- French: “Rio Cauca”
- French: “Río Cauca”
- Galician: “Río Cauca”
- German: “Cauca”
- German: “Rio Cauca”
- German: “Río Cauca”
- Hebrew: “קאוקה”
- Hindi: “कौका नदी”
- Hungarian: “Cauca”
- Interlingua: “Cauca”
- Interlingua: “Fluvio Cauca”
- Irish: “Abhainn Cauca”
- Italian: “Cauca”
- Japanese: “カウカ川”
- Korean: “카우카강”
- Kotava: “Cauca (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Cauca”
- Latin: “Cauca (flumen)”
- Latin: “Cauca”
- Lithuanian: “Kauka”
- Mingrelian: “კაუკა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “კაუკა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cauca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cauca”
- Norwegian: “Cauca”
- Polish: “Cauca”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cauca”
- Russian: “Каука”
- Serbian: “Kauka”
- Serbian: “Каука”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cauca (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cauca”
- Slovenian: “Cauca”
- Slovenian: “reka Cauca”
- Slovenian: “Río Cauca”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوکا چایی”
- Spanish: “Cauca”
- Spanish: “Rio Cauca”
- Spanish: “Río Cauca”
- Swedish: “Caucafloden”
- Turkish: “Cauca Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Каука”
- Uzbek: “Kauka”
- Welsh: “Afon Cauca”
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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 “Cauca River”. Photo: Jaime Henao Támesis, CC BY-SA 4.0.