El Fuerte de Samaipata

El Fuerte de Samaipata or Fort Samaipata, also known simply as "El Fuerte", is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in , Santa Cruz Department, .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site
  • Also known as: “Fort Samaipata”, “Fuerte de Samaipata”, “Fuerte de Samaypata”, “Samaipata”, and “Samipata Fort”
  • Inscription: “Es considerado la mayor obra de arquitectura rupestre del mundo”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Samaipata.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
or Samaypata is a small town in the of the Santa Cruz Department in . It has a subtropical climate and an altitude of 1600–1800 m.

El Fuerte de Samaipata

Latitude
-18.18182° or 18° 10′ 55″ south
Longitude
-63.8189° or 63° 49′ 8″ west
Elevation
1,904 metres (6,247 feet)
Open location code
57HRR59J+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 702931249
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
8410976
Wiki­data ID
Q876451
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“El Fuerte de Samaipata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة ساماي باتا”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուերտե դե Սամայպատա”
  • Bashkir: “Фуэрте-де-Самайпата”
  • Belarusian: “Фуэртэ-дэ-Самайпата”
  • Catalan: “Fort de Samaipata”
  • Cebuano: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Chinese: “萨迈帕塔考古遗址”
  • Croatian: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Czech: “Samaipata”
  • Danish: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Dutch: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Finnish: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • French: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • French: “Samaipata”
  • Georgian: “ფუერტე-დე-სამაიპატა”
  • Georgian: “ფუერტე–დე–სამაიპატა”
  • German: “Festung von Samaipata”
  • German: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Greek: “Ελ Φουέρτε ντε Σαμαϊπάτα”
  • Greek: “Ελ Φουέρτε”
  • Greek: “Φουέρτε ντε Σαμαϊπάτα”
  • Hebrew: “מבצר סמאיפאטה”
  • Indonesian: “El Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Italian: “Forte di Samaipata”
  • Italian: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Japanese: “サマイパタの砦”
  • Korean: “사마이파타 암벽화”
  • Lithuanian: “El Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Lithuanian: “Samaipatos fortas”
  • Lithuanian: “Samaipatos tvirtovė”
  • Maltese: “El Fuerte”
  • Maltese: “Forti ta‘ Samaipata”
  • Maltese: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Persian: “ال فورت د سامایپاتا”
  • Polish: “Fort Samaipata”
  • Portuguese: “Forte de Samaipata”
  • Quechua: “Samaipata pukara”
  • Quechua: “Samaypata pukara”
  • Russian: “Фуэрте-де-Самайпата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Slovak: “Samaipata”
  • Spanish: “El Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Spanish: “Samaipata”
  • Swedish: “El Fuerte”
  • Swedish: “Fuerte de Samaipata (fornlämning i Bolivia)”
  • Swedish: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Turkish: “Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт Самайпата”
  • Vietnamese: “El Fuerte de Samaipata”
  • Vietnamese: “Fuerte de Samaipata”

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