Bartica
Bartica is a river port town of some 8,000, known as Guyana's Gateway to the Interior, located just above the confluence of the Cuyuni and Mazaruni Rivers to the south. Its name comes from an indigenous word for "red earth."…- City with about 11,500 residents
- …has the IATA airport code GFO
- …is also known as “Barteke”
- Description: Regional capital of Cuyuni-Mazaruni or Region N.7 administered de facto by Guyana and claimed by Venezuela
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Latitude of center
6.4053° or 6° 24′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
-58.6214° or 58° 37′ 17″ west
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GY GFO
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bartica” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بارتيسا”
- Asturian: “Bartica”
- Catalan: “Bartica”
- Cebuano: “Bartica”
- Chinese: “巴蒂卡”
- Dutch: “Bartica”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارتيسا”
- French: “Bartica”
- German: “Bartica”
- Hebrew: “ברטיקה”
- Italian: “Bartica”
- Japanese: “バルティカ”
- Kazakh: “Бартика”
- Korean: “바르티카”
- Lithuanian: “Bartika”
- Malagasy: “Bartica”
- Northern Frisian: “Bartica”
- Persian: “بارتیکا”
- Polish: “Bartica”
- Portuguese: “Bartica”
- Russian: “Бартика”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bartica”
- Sinhala: “බාර්ටිකා, ගයනාව”
- Spanish: “Bartica”
- Swedish: “Bartica”
- Ukrainian: “Бартика”
- Urdu: “بارٹیکا”
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