Colombia
Costa Norte
Magdalena Department

Aracataca

Aracataca is a small town in the of , to the south of . Largely unknown to travelers and even to the guidebooks, this town absolutely should not be overlooked in the itinerary of anyone with any interest in Gabriel García Márquez.
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Aracataca

Latitude
10.5906° or 10° 35′ 26″ north
Longitude
-74.1877° or 74° 11′ 16″ west
Population
35,500
Elevation
1,833 metres (6,014 feet)
Open location code
7727HRR6+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 309434921
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3689761
Wiki­data ID
Q624492
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Aracataca” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أراكاتاكا”
  • Armenian: “Արակատակա”
  • Asturian: “Aracataca (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Aracataca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arakataka”
  • Belarusian: “Аракатака”
  • Bosnian: “Aracataca”
  • Bulgarian: “Аракатака”
  • Catalan: “Aracataca”
  • Catalan: “Cataca”
  • Cebuano: “Aracataca”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئارکاتاکا”
  • Chechen: “Аракатака”
  • Chinese: “阿拉卡塔卡”
  • Czech: “Aracataca”
  • Danish: “Aracataca”
  • Dutch: “Aracataca”
  • Esperanto: “Aracataca”
  • Esperanto: “Arakatako”
  • French: “Aracataca”
  • Galician: “Aracataca”
  • Georgian: “არაკატაკა”
  • German: “Aracataca”
  • Greek: “Αρακατάκα”
  • Greek: “Κατάκα”
  • Hebrew: “ארקטקה”
  • Hungarian: “Aracataca”
  • Irish: “Aracataca”
  • Italian: “Aracataca”
  • Italian: “Cataca”
  • Japanese: “アラカタカ”
  • Korean: “아라카타카”
  • Kotava: “Aracataca”
  • Lithuanian: “Arakataka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aracataca”
  • Malay: “Aracataca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aracataca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aracataca”
  • Persian: “آراکاتاکا”
  • Polish: “Aracataca”
  • Portuguese: “Aracataca”
  • Russian: “Аракатака”
  • Sardinian: “Aracataca”
  • Scots: “Aracataca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aracataca”
  • Serbian: “Arakataka”
  • Sicilian: “Aracataca”
  • Sindhi: “آراڪاٽاڪا”
  • Slovak: “Aracataca”
  • Slovenian: “Aracataca”
  • Spanish: “Aracataca (Magdalena)”
  • Spanish: “Aracataca”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Aracataca”
  • Swedish: “Aracataca”
  • Tagalog: “Aracataca”
  • Turkish: “Aracataca (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Aracataca belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Aracataca”
  • Ukrainian: “Аракатака”
  • Uzbek: “Arakataka”
  • Vietnamese: “Aracataca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aracataca”
  • Welsh: “Aracataca”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aracataca”. Photo: Tim Buendia, CC BY-SA 3.0.