Carurú
Carurú is a town and municipality located in the department of Vaupés, Colombia. The town is on the north bank of the Vaupés River in the Amazon natural region of the country.Places of Interest
Highlights include Carurú Airport.
Carurú Airport
Aerodrome
Carurú Airport is an airport serving the river town of Carurú in the Vaupés Department of Colombia. The runway parallels the Vaupés River, an eventual tributary of the Amazon River.
Carurú
- Type: Town with 2,920 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Vaupés
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Caruru, Vaupés Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
1.01553° or 1° 0′ 56″ north
Longitude
-71.29615° or 71° 17′ 46″ west
Population
2,920
Elevation
198 metres (650 feet)
IATA airport code
CUO
United Nations Location Code
CO CUO
Open location code
67HC2P83+6G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Carurú” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Carurú (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Carurú”
- Cebuano: “Caruru”
- Chinese: “Carurú”
- Chinese: “卡魯魯”
- Chinese: “卡鲁鲁”
- Dutch: “Caruru”
- Dutch: “Carurú”
- Finnish: “Carurú”
- French: “Carurú”
- Galician: “Carurú”
- Georgian: “კარურუ”
- German: “Carurú”
- Irish: “Caruru”
- Italian: “Caruru”
- Italian: “Carurú”
- Italian: “Carurù”
- Japanese: “カルル”
- Malay: “Caruru”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Carurú”
- Persian: “کارورو”
- Polish: “Carurú”
- Portuguese: “Carurú”
- Russian: “Каруру”
- Scots: “Carurú”
- Spanish: “Caruru”
- Spanish: “Carurú”
- Swedish: “Caruru”
- Turkish: “Caruru (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Caruru belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Caruru”
- Urdu: “کارورو”
- Vietnamese: “Carurú”
- Waray (Philippines): “Caruru”
- “Carurú”
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