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.
  • City with about 96,800 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 130 metres (410 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code AUC
  • …is also known as “Arauca, Arauca”
  • Description: capital of the Colombian department of Arauca

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Latitude
7.0852° or 7° 5′ 7″ north
Longitude
-70.7578° or 70° 45′ 28″ west
UN/LOCODE
CO AUC
Open location code
67VF36PR+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Arauca” goes by many names.
አራውካAmharic
أراوكاArabic
أروكاArabic
AraucaAsturian
Arauca (Colombia)Asturian
AraucaAymara
AraucaAzerbaijani
AraukaAzerbaijani
АраўкаBelarusian
Араўка (горад)Belarusian
আরাউকাBengali
AraucaBreton
AraucaCatalan
Arauca (Arauca)Catalan
AraucaCebuano
阿劳卡Chinese
AraucaCroatian
Arauca (Arauca, Kolumbija)Croatian
AraucaCzech
AraucaDanish
AraucaDutch
AraŭkoEsperanto
AraucaFinnish
AraucaGalician
Arauca, AraucaGalician
არაუკაGeorgian
Αράουκα (Αρούκα)Greek
અરૌકાGujarati
AraucaHausa
אראוקהHebrew
अराउकाHindi
AraucaHungarian
AraucaIloko
Arauca, AraucaIloko
AraucaIndonesian
Arauca, AraucaIndonesian
AraucaIrish
AraucaItalian
アラウカJapanese
AraucaJavanese
ಅರಾಕKannada
АраусаKazakh
АраусаKirghiz
아라우카Korean
아라우카 (도시)Korean
AraukaLatvian
AraukaLithuanian
Arauka (miestas)Lithuanian
AraucaMalay
Arauca, AraucaMalay
अरॉकाMarathi
AraucaMin Nan Chinese
AraucaNorthern Frisian
Arauca (Steed)Northern Frisian
AraucaNorwegian
AraucaNorwegian Bokmål
AraucaOromo
ਅਰਾਉਕਾPanjabi
آرائوکاPersian
AraucaPolish
اراوکاPushto
AraucaQuechua
АраукаRussian
AraucaScots
Arauca, AraucaScots
Allmhurach/araucaScottish Gaelic
AraucaScottish Gaelic
Arauca (baile)Scottish Gaelic
AraucaSerbo-Croatian
අරකුආSinhala
අරවුකා, කොලොම්බියාවSinhala
AraucaSlovak
AraucaSomali
Arauca, AraucaTagalog
АраусаTajik
அறவுக்காTamil
АраукаTatar
АраусаTatar
అరోకాTelugu
อาเรากาThai
AraucaTurkish
Arauca (belediye)Turkish
Arauca belediyesiTurkish
АраукаUkrainian
آراوکا، آراوکاUrdu
AraucaUzbek
AraucaVietnamese
Arauca, AraucaVietnamese
AraucaWaray (Philippines)
Arauca, AraucaWaray (Philippines)
آراؤکاWestern Panjabi
阿劳卡Wu Chinese
AraucaYoruba
Arauca, AraucaYoruba

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