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."…- Type: City with 11,500 residents
- Description: Regional capital of Cuyuni-Mazaruni or Region N.7 administered de facto by Guyana and claimed by Venezuela
- Also known as: “Barteke”
Bartica
- Categories: disputed territory and locality
- Location: Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Guyana, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
6.4053° or 6° 24′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
-58.6214° or 58° 37′ 17″ west
Population
11,500
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
GFO
United Nations Location Code
GY GFO
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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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