Barrancas
Barrancas is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of La Guajira. The municipality of Barrancas is located to the west of the Ranchería River in a valley between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá mountains.- Town with about 35,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (130 feet)
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
- Also known as“Barrancas, Colombia”“Barrancas, La Guajira”
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Latitude
10.9542° or 10° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
-72.7889° or 72° 47′ 20″ west
Open location code
7729X636+MF
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Barrancas” goes by many names.
بارانكاسArabic
BarrancasAsturian
Barrancas (Colombia)Asturian
BarrankasAzerbaijani
БаранкасBelarusian
BarrancasCatalan
BarrancasCebuano
Barrancas (munisipyo)Cebuano
巴蘭卡斯Chinese
BarrancasDutch
BarrancasEsperanto
BarrancasGalician
Barrancas, La GuajiraGalician
ბარანკასიGeorgian
ברנקאסHebrew
BarrancasIrish
BarrancasItalian
バランカスJapanese
BarrancasMalay
Barrancas, La GuajiraMalay
BarrancasMin Nan Chinese
بارانکاسPersian
بارانکاس، لا گواخیراPersian
BarrancasPolish
БарранкасRussian
BarrancasSwedish
BarrancasTagalog
Barrancas, La GuajiraTagalog
BarrancasTurkish
Barrancas (belediye)Turkish
Barrancas belediyesiTurkish
بارانکاس، لا گواخیراUrdu
BarrancasWaray (Philippines)
Barrancas, La GuajiraWaray (Philippines)
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