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 Department, Colombia”, “amazonenses”, “Amazones”, “Amazono”, “CO-AMA”, “comisaria del Amazonas”, “comisaría del Amazonas”, “Comisaría del Amazonas”, “Departament d’Amazones”, “departamento del Amazonas”, “Departamento do Amazonas”, “departamentu d’Amazonas”, “Departement Amazonas”, “Intendencia del Amazonas”, “Intendenica Nacional del Amazonas”, “Roinn Amazonas”, “Амазонас”, “ამაზონასის დეპარტამენტი”, “ამასონასი”, and “అమెజానోస్ విభాగం”
  • 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”
  • Amharic: “የአማዞናስ ክፍለ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة أمازوناس”
  • Armenian: “Ամազոնաս”
  • Asturian: “Amazonas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amasonas departamenti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amasonas”
  • Basque: “Amazonas”
  • Belarusian: “Амасонас (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Амасонас”
  • Bengali: “আমাজুনাস বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Amazonas”
  • Bulgarian: “Амасонас”
  • Catalan: “Departament de l’Amazones”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento del Amazonas”
  • Chinese: “亚马孙省”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜省”
  • Croatian: “Amazonas”
  • Czech: “Amazonas”
  • Danish: “Amazonas Department”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Amazonas”
  • Dutch: “Amazonas”
  • Esperanto: “Amazonio”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Amazonio”
  • Estonian: “Amazonase departemang”
  • Finnish: “Amazonas”
  • French: “Amazonas”
  • Galician: “Amazonas, Colombia”
  • Galician: “Amazonas”
  • Georgian: “ამასონასის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento de Amazonas”
  • German: “Departamento del Amazonas”
  • Greek: “διαμέρισμα Αμαζόνιου”
  • Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Αμασόνας”
  • Gujarati: “એમેઝોનાઝ વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Departamen Amazonas”
  • Hebrew: “אמסונאס”
  • Hindi: “आमासोनास विभाग”
  • Hindi: “आमेज़ोनास विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Amazonas megye”
  • Iloko: “Amazonas”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Amazonas”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Amazonas”
  • Irish: “Amazonas”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Amazonas”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Amazonas”
  • Japanese: “アマソナス県”
  • Javanese: “Departemen Amazonas”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೆಜೋನಾಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Амазондық департамент”
  • Kirghiz: “Амазондук департамент”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Departmenti Amazonas”
  • Ossetian: “Амасонас (Колумби)”
  • Ossetian: “Амасонас”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਮਾਜ਼ੋਨਾਸ ਵਿਭਾਗ”
  • Persian: “بخش آمازوناس”
  • Persian: “حوزه امازوناس”
  • Polish: “Amazonas”
  • Portuguese: “Amazonas”
  • Pushto: “د امازوناس ریاست”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Amazonas”
  • Russian: “Амасонас”
  • Samogitian: “Amazuonės departaments”
  • Scots: “Amazonas Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Amazonas, Colombie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “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”
  • Somali: “Departamenta Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Amazonas”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵓⵏⴰⵙ”
  • Swahili: “Idara ya Amazonas”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas”
  • Tagalog: “Amazonas”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Амазонас”
  • Tamil: “அமாசோனஸ் துறை”
  • Tatar: “Амазонас Департаменты”
  • Telugu: “అమెజానోస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอามาโซนัส”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas Departmantı”
  • Turkish: “Amazonas”
  • Ukrainian: “Амасонас”
  • Urdu: “ایمازوناس محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Amazonas Departamenti”
  • 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”

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