Colombia
Arauca Department
Arauca

Arauca

The Orinoquía is the "Wild East" of . Endless plains — Los Llanos — are dotted with livestock, cowboys on horseback pioneering the landscape, and the roadless landscapes go uninterrupted save by some of Colombia's great meandering rivers.
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  • Type: City with 294,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Colombian department of Arauca
  • Also known as: “Arauca, Arauca”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Santiago Pérez Quiroz Airport and José Antonio Páez International Bridge.

Aerodrome
Photo: Carlos G. Ramirez R., CC BY-SA 3.0.
(Spanish: Aeropuerto Santiago Pérez Quiroz is an airport serving Arauca, the capital of the in . The runway is southeast of the city, and 2 kilometres south of Colombia's border with .

Bridge
Photo: Dansar, CC BY 2.5.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Amparo.

Town
is a town located in , of . It is located on the border with Colombia, on the banks of the . The Massacre of took place near the town.

Arauca

Latitude
7.0852° or 7° 5′ 7″ north
Longitude
-70.7578° or 70° 45′ 28″ west
Population
294,000
Elevation
132 metres (433 feet)
IATA airport code
AUC
United Nations Location Code
CO AUC
Open location code
67VF36PR+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9632105989
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3689718
Wiki­data ID
Q626543
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Arauca” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أروكا”
  • Asturian: “Arauca (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Arauca”
  • Aymara: “Arauca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arauka”
  • Bengali: “আরাউকা”
  • Breton: “Arauca”
  • Catalan: “Arauca (Arauca)”
  • Catalan: “Arauca”
  • Cebuano: “Arauca”
  • Chinese: “Arauca”
  • Chinese: “阿劳卡”
  • Croatian: “Arauca (Arauca, Kolumbija)”
  • Croatian: “Arauca”
  • Czech: “Arauca”
  • Danish: “Arauca”
  • Dutch: “Arauca”
  • Esperanto: “Araŭko”
  • Finnish: “Arauca”
  • French: “Arauca (Ville)”
  • French: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • French: “Arauca”
  • Galician: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Galician: “Arauca”
  • Georgian: “არაუკა”
  • German: “Arauca”
  • Greek: “Αράουκα (Αρούκα)”
  • Gujarati: “અરૌકા”
  • Hebrew: “אראוקה”
  • Hindi: “अरौका”
  • Hungarian: “Arauca”
  • Iloko: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Iloko: “Arauca”
  • Indonesian: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Indonesian: “Arauca”
  • Irish: “Arauca”
  • Italian: “Arauca”
  • Japanese: “アラウカ”
  • Kannada: “ಅರಾಕ”
  • Korean: “아라우카 (도시)”
  • Korean: “아라우카”
  • Latvian: “Arauka”
  • Lithuanian: “Arauka (miestas)”
  • Lithuanian: “Arauka”
  • Malay: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Malay: “Arauca”
  • Marathi: “अरॉका”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arauca”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arauca (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arauca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arauca”
  • Norwegian: “Arauca”
  • Persian: “آرائوکا”
  • Polish: “Arauca”
  • Portuguese: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Portuguese: “Arauca”
  • Quechua: “Arauca”
  • Russian: “Араука”
  • Scots: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Scots: “Arauca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Allmhurach/arauca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arauca (baile)”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arauca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arauca”
  • Sinhala: “අරකුආ”
  • Sinhala: “අරවුකා, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Slovak: “Arauca”
  • Spanish: “Arauca (ciudad Colombia)”
  • Spanish: “Arauca (ciudad, Colombia)”
  • Spanish: “Arauca”
  • Spanish: “Araucanos (Arauca)”
  • Swedish: “Arauca”
  • Tagalog: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Tagalog: “Arauca”
  • Tamil: “அறவுக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Араука”
  • Telugu: “అరోకా”
  • Thai: “อาเรากา”
  • Turkish: “Arauca (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Arauca belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Arauca”
  • Ukrainian: “Араука”
  • Urdu: “آراوکا، آراوکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Vietnamese: “Arauca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arauca”
  • Western Panjabi: “آراؤکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿劳卡”
  • Yoruba: “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Yoruba: “Arauca”
  • “Arauca”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Arauca”. Photo: Petruss, CC BY-SA 3.0.