Arauquita
Arauquita is a town and municipality in the Arauca Department, Colombia. As of 2020, the municipality has a population of 56,209. Miguel Matus Caile, the politician and historian, was born in Arauquita.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Victoria.
La Victoria
Town
La Victoria is a locality in the state of Apure in Venezuela, on the Venezuelan side of the banks of the Arauca River. In 2021, it was the epicenter of clashes between FARC dissidents and the Venezuelan Armed Forces that caused a forced migration of more than 4 thousand inhabitants to the Colombian town of Arauquita.
Arauquita
- Type: Town with 9,950 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Arauca
- Categories: municipality of Colombia, border city, and locality
- Location: Arauquita, Arauca Department, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.0295° or 7° 1′ 46″ northLongitude
-71.4279° or 71° 25′ 40″ westPopulation
9,950Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)IATA airport code
ARQUnited Nations Location Code
CO ARQOpen location code
67VC2HHC+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 352934496OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3689714Wikidata ID
Q2320331
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Arauquita” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أراوكيتا”
- Armenian: “Արաուկիտա”
- Asturian: “Arauquita (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Arauquita”
- Catalan: “Arauquita”
- Cebuano: “Arauquita”
- Chinese: “Arauquita”
- Chinese: “阿劳基塔”
- Chinese: “阿勞基塔”
- Dutch: “Arauquita”
- French: “Arauquita”
- Galician: “Arauquita”
- Georgian: “არაუკიტა”
- German: “Arauquita”
- Iloko: “Arauquita”
- Irish: “Arauquita”
- Italian: “Arauquita”
- Japanese: “アラウキタ”
- Malay: “Arauquita”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Arauquita”
- Persian: “آرائوکیتا”
- Polish: “Arauquita”
- Portuguese: “Arauquita”
- Russian: “Араукита”
- Scots: “Arauquita”
- Spanish: “Arauquita”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Arauquita”
- Swedish: “Arauquita”
- Tagalog: “Arauquita”
- Turkish: “Arauquita (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Arauquita belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Arauquita”
- Vietnamese: “Arauquita”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arauquita”
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