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Amazonas Department

Amazonas is a department of Southern . It is the largest department in area while having the third smallest population among the departments. Its capital is Leticia and its name comes from the Amazon River, which drains the department.
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  • Type: department of Colombia with 76,600 residents
  • Description: department of Colombia
  • Also known as: “Amazonas”, “Amazonas Department, Colombia”, “Comisaría del Amazonas”, “Intendencia del Amazonas”, and “Intendenica Nacional del Amazonas”
  • Neighbors:

Amazonas Department

Latitude
-1.1667° or 1° 10′ south
Longitude
-71.5° or 71° 30′ west
Population
76,600
Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)
Open location code
67CCRGM2+82
Geo­Names ID
3689982
Wiki­data ID
Q44724
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Amazonas Department” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Amazonas (Colombia)”
  • Afrikaans: “Amazonas”
  • Arabic: “إدارة أمازوناس”
  • Armenian: “Ամազոնաս”
  • Asturian: “Amazonas”
  • Asturian: “departamentu d’Amazonas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amasonas departamenti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amasonas”
  • Basque: “Amazonas”
  • Bengali: “আমাজুনাস বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Amazonas”
  • Bulgarian: “Амасонас”
  • Catalan: “Amazones”
  • Catalan: “Departament d’Amazones”
  • Catalan: “Departament de l’Amazones”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento del Amazonas”
  • Chinese: “Amazonas”
  • Chinese: “亚马孙省”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜省”
  • Croatian: “Amazonas”
  • Czech: “Amazonas”
  • Czech: “Departement Amazonas”
  • Danish: “Amazonas Department”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Amazonas”
  • Dutch: “Amazonas”
  • Esperanto: “Amazonio”
  • Esperanto: “Amazono”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Amazonio”
  • Estonian: “Amazonase departemang”
  • Finnish: “Amazonas”
  • French: “Amazonas”
  • Galician: “Amazonas, Colombia”
  • Galician: “Amazonas”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Amazonas”
  • Georgian: “ამაზონასის დეპარტამენტი”
  • Georgian: “ამასონასი”
  • Georgian: “ამასონასის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Amazonas”
  • German: “CO-AMA”
  • German: “Departamento de Amazonas”
  • German: “Departamento del Amazonas”
  • Greek: “διαμέρισμα Αμαζόνιου”
  • Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Αμασόνας”
  • Gujarati: “એમેઝોનાઝ વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “אמסונאס”
  • Hindi: “आमेज़ोनास विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Amazonas megye”
  • Iloko: “Amazonas”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Amazonas”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Amazonas”
  • Irish: “Amazonas”
  • Italian: “Amazonas”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Amazonas”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Amazonas”
  • Japanese: “アマソナス県”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೆಜೋನಾಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “아마소나스주”
  • Ladino: “Amazonas”
  • Latvian: “Amazonasas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonės departamentas”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Amazonas”
  • Marathi: “अमॅझॉन्स विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amazonas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amazonas (Department uun Kolumbien)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amazonasdepartementet i Colombia”
  • Norwegian: “Amazonas”
  • Ossetian: “Амасонас (Колумби)”
  • Ossetian: “Амасонас”
  • Persian: “بخش آمازوناس”
  • Persian: “حوزه امازوناس”
  • Polish: “Amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “Amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento do Amazonas”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Amazonas”
  • Russian: “Амасонас”
  • Samogitian: “Amazuonės departaments”
  • Scots: “Amazonas Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Amazonas, Colombie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Amazonas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Amazonas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amazonas (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amazonas”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝනාස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝනාස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovak: “Amazonas (department v Kolumbii)”
  • Slovak: “Amazonas”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “amazonenses”
  • Spanish: “comisaria del Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “comisaría del Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “departamento del Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Amazonas”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵓⵏⴰⵙ”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas, Colombia”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas”
  • Tagalog: “Amazonas”
  • Tamil: “அமாசோனஸ் துறை”
  • Telugu: “అమెజానోస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “అమెజానోస్ విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอามาโซนัส”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas Departmantı”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas”
  • Ukrainian: “Амазонас”
  • Ukrainian: “Амасонас”
  • Urdu: “ایمازوناس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “ایمازوناس محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Amazonas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amazonas”
  • Wayuu: “Amasoona (Kolomwia)”
  • Wayuu: “Amasoona”
  • Western Armenian: “Ամազոնաս”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایمازوناس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚马孙省”
  • Yoruba: “Amazonas Department”
  • “Amazonas”
  • “Amazuonės departaments”

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