Arauca Department
Arauca is a department of Eastern Colombia located in the extreme north of the Orinoco Basin of Colombia, bordering Venezuela. The southern boundary of Arauca is formed by the Casanare and Meta Rivers, separating Arauca from the departments of Casanare and Vichada.
- State with 282,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 132 metres (433 feet)
- Description: department of Colombia
- Also known as“Comisaría de Arauca”“Comisaría Especial de Arauca”
- Neighbors
Arauca Department
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- Location
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Latitude
6.6667° or 6° 40′ north
Longitude
-71° or 71° west
Open location code
67RCMX8X+MX
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Arauca Department” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Arauca (departement)”
- Afrikaans: “Arauca”
- Amharic: “አራውካ ዲፓርትመንት”
- Arabic: “إدارة أروكا”
- Asturian: “Arauca”
- Asturian: “departamentu d’Arauca”
- Azerbaijani: “Arauka (departament)”
- Azerbaijani: “Arauka”
- Basque: “Arauca”
- Belarusian: “Араўка (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Араўка”
- Bengali: “আরোকা বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Arauca”
- Bulgarian: “Араука”
- Catalan: “Arauca”
- Catalan: “Departament d’Arauca”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de 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”
- Hausa: “Sashen Arauca”
- 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”
- Javanese: “Departemen Arauca”
- Kannada: “ಅರೌಕ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Kazakh: “Аравка департаменті”
- Kirghiz: “Аравка департаменти”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Kutaa Arauca”
- Ossetian: “Араукæ (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Араукæ”
- Panjabi: “ਅਰਾਉਕਾ ਵਿਭਾਗ”
- Persian: “بخش آرائوکا”
- Persian: “شهرستان آرائوکا”
- Polish: “Arauca”
- Portuguese: “Arauca”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Arauca”
- Pushto: “اراوکا ولایت”
- 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”
- Somali: “Gobolka Arauca”
- Spanish: “Arauca”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Arauca”
- Spanish: “Departamento del Arauca”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴰⵕⵓⴽⴰ”
- Swahili: “Idara ya Arauca”
- Swedish: “Arauca, Colombia”
- Swedish: “Arauca”
- Tagalog: “Arauca”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Аравка”
- Tamil: “அறவுக்கா துறை”
- Tatar: “Аравка департаменты”
- Telugu: “అరౌకా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “అరౌకా విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอาเรากา”
- Turkish: “Arauca”
- Ukrainian: “Араука”
- Urdu: “آراوکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “آراوکا محکمہ”
- Uzbek: “Arauka departamenti”
- 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”
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