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Arauca Department

Arauca is a department of Eastern located in the extreme north of the Orinoco Basin of Colombia, bordering . The southern boundary of Arauca is formed by the Casanare and , separating Arauca from the departments of and .
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  • Type: State with 282,000 residents
  • Description: department of Colombia
  • Also known as: “Comisaría de Arauca” and “Comisaría Especial de Arauca”
  • Neighbors: and

Arauca Department

Latitude
6.6667° or 6° 40′ north
Longitude
-71° or 71° west
Population
282,000
Elevation
132 metres (433 feet)
Open location code
67RCMX8X+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306394548
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3689717
Wiki­data ID
Q230223
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Arauca Department” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arauca (departement)”
  • Afrikaans: “Arauca”
  • Arabic: “إدارة أروكا”
  • Asturian: “Arauca”
  • Asturian: “departamentu d’Arauca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arauka (departament)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arauka”
  • Basque: “Arauca”
  • Bengali: “আরোকা বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Arauca”
  • Bulgarian: “Араука”
  • Catalan: “Arauca”
  • Catalan: “Departament d’Arauca”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Arauca”
  • Chinese: “Arauca”
  • Chinese: “阿劳卡省”
  • Chinese: “阿勞卡省”
  • Croatian: “Arauca”
  • Czech: “Arauca”
  • Czech: “Departement Arauca”
  • Danish: “Arauca”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Atlantiko”
  • Dutch: “Arauca”
  • Esperanto: “Araŭko”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Araŭko”
  • Finnish: “Arauca”
  • French: “Arauca”
  • Galician: “Arauca, Colombia”
  • Galician: “Arauca”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Arauca”
  • Georgian: “არაუკის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Arauca”
  • German: “CO-ARA”
  • German: “Departamento de Arauca”
  • German: “Departamento del Arauca”
  • Greek: “Αράουκα”
  • Gujarati: “અરૌકા વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “אראוקה”
  • Hindi: “अराउका विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Arauca megye”
  • Iloko: “Arauca”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Arauca”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Arauca”
  • Irish: “Arauca”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Arauca”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Arauca”
  • Japanese: “アラウカ県”
  • Kannada: “ಅರೌಕ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “아라우카주”
  • Ladino: “Arauca”
  • Latvian: “Araukas departaments”
  • Latvian: “Araukas departments”
  • Lithuanian: “Araukos departamentas”
  • Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Arauca”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Arauca”
  • Marathi: “अरौका विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arauca”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arauca (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arauca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arauca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arauca-departementet”
  • Norwegian: “Arauca”
  • Ossetian: “Араукæ (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Араукæ”
  • Persian: “بخش آرائوکا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان آرائوکا”
  • Polish: “Arauca”
  • Portuguese: “Arauca”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Arauca”
  • Quechua: “Arauca suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Arauca”
  • Russian: “Араука”
  • Samogitian: “Araukas departaments”
  • Scots: “Arauca Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Arauca, Colombie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arauca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Arauca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arauca (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arauca”
  • Sinhala: “අරවුකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “අරවුකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovak: “Arauca”
  • Slovenian: “CO-ARA”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento del Arauca”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Arauca”
  • Spanish: “Arauca”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Arauca”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Arauca”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴰⵕⵓⴽⴰ”
  • Swedish: “Arauca, Colombia”
  • Swedish: “Arauca”
  • Tagalog: “Arauca”
  • Tamil: “அறவுக்கா துறை”
  • Telugu: “అరౌకా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “అరౌకా విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอาเรากา”
  • Turkish: “Arauca”
  • Ukrainian: “Араука”
  • Urdu: “آراوکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “آراوکا محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Arauca”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Arauca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arauca”
  • Wayuu: “Araaukat”
  • Western Armenian: “Արոքայի վարչակազմ”
  • Western Panjabi: “آراؤکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿劳卡省”
  • Yoruba: “Arauca Department”
  • “Araukas departaments”

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