Cabo de la Vela
Cabo de la Vela is a headland in the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia with an adjacent small fishing village. It is a popular ecotourism destination of the Caribbean region of Colombia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wicho 2, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: Veritech, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Cape with an elevation of -5 metres
- Description: headland in Colombia
- Also known as: “Cabo La Vela”
Cabo de la Vela
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: La Guajira, Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
12.2071° or 12° 12′ 26″ northLongitude
-72.1802° or 72° 10′ 49″ westElevation
-5 metres (-16 feet)Open location code
77496R49+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1181556217OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Wayuu—“Cabo de la Vela” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cap de la Vela”
- Cebuano: “Cabo de La Vela”
- Chinese: “卡波·德·拉维拉”
- Dutch: “Cabo de la Vela”
- French: “Cabo de la Vela”
- French: “cap de la Vela”
- French: “Cap de la Vela”
- Galician: “Cabo de la Vela”
- German: “Cabo de la Vela”
- German: “Cabo de Vela”
- Italian: “Capo de la Vela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cabo de la Vela”
- Norwegian: “Cabo de la Vela”
- Russian: “Вела”
- Spanish: “Cabo de la vela”
- Spanish: “Cabo de la Vela”
- Spanish: “Cabo de La Vela”
- Swedish: “Cabo de La Vela”
- Ukrainian: “Вела”
- Wayuu: “Jepira”
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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 Wikipedia page “Cabo de la Vela”. Photo: Veritech, CC BY-SA 3.0.