Barrancas

Barrancas is a town and municipality in the Department of . The municipality of Barrancas is located to the west of the in a valley between the and mountains.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Town with 35,700 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
  • Also known as: “Barrancas (belediye)”, “Barrancas (Colombia)”, “Barrancas belediyesi”, “Barrancas, Colombia”, and “Barrancas, La Guajira”

Barrancas

Latitude
10.9542° or 10° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
-72.7889° or 72° 47′ 20″ west
Population
35,700
Elevation
259 metres (850 feet)
Open location code
7729X636+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 703170206
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3689165
Wiki­data ID
Q786529
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Barrancas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بارانكاس”
  • Asturian: “Barrancas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barrankas”
  • Belarusian: “Баранкас”
  • Catalan: “Barrancas”
  • Cebuano: “Barrancas (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Barrancas”
  • Chinese: “巴蘭卡斯”
  • Dutch: “Barrancas”
  • Esperanto: “Barrancas”
  • French: “Barrancas”
  • Galician: “Barrancas, La Guajira”
  • Galician: “Barrancas”
  • Georgian: “ბარანკასი”
  • German: “Barrancas”
  • Hebrew: “ברנקאס”
  • Irish: “Barrancas”
  • Italian: “Barrancas”
  • Japanese: “バランカス”
  • Malay: “Barrancas, La Guajira”
  • Malay: “Barrancas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Barrancas”
  • Persian: “بارانکاس، لا گواخیرا”
  • Persian: “بارانکاس”
  • Polish: “Barrancas”
  • Portuguese: “Barrancas”
  • Russian: “Барранкас”
  • Spanish: “Barrancas”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Barrancas”
  • Swedish: “Barrancas”
  • Tagalog: “Barrancas, La Guajira”
  • Tagalog: “Barrancas”
  • Turkish: “Barrancas”
  • Urdu: “بارانکاس، لا گواخیرا”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barrancas, La Guajira”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barrancas”

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