Gran Chaco
Alto Paraguay
Fuerte Olimpo

Fuerte Olimpo

Fuerte Olimpo is a town in Western . The capital of Alto Paraguay department, it's one of the most picturesque riverside ports along the river Paraguay with beautiful hills rising behind it, an old Spanish fort dating back to 1792, and an attractive cathedral of María Auxiliadora.
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  • Type: Town with 4,500 residents
  • Description: city and departmental capital of Alto Paraguay
  • Also known as: “Fort Olimpo”, “Fuerte Borbón”, and “Olimpo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fuerte Olimpo Airport.

Aerodrome
Tte. 1ro Inocencio Herebia Airport, or simply known as , is an airport serving the port of Fuerte Olimpo in Alto Paraguay Department of .

Fuerte Olimpo

Latitude
-21.0385° or 21° 2′ 19″ south
Longitude
-57.8748° or 57° 52′ 29″ west
Population
4,500
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
IATA airport code
OLK
United Nations Location Code
PY FUO
Open location code
58C4X46G+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313884331
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3438102
Wiki­data ID
Q136498
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Fuerte Olimpo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فويرتي اوليمبو”
  • Basque: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Belarusian: “Фуэртэ-Алімпа”
  • Bengali: “ফুর্তে অলিম্পো”
  • Catalan: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Cebuano: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Chavacano: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Chinese: “奥林波堡”
  • Chinese: “奧林波堡”
  • Danish: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Dutch: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Esperanto: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Finnish: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • French: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Georgian: “ფუერტე-ოლიმპო”
  • German: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Greek: “Φουέρτε Ολίμπο”
  • Guarani: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્યુરટે ઓલિમ્પો”
  • Hindi: “फुएर्टो लिम्पो”
  • Indonesian: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Italian: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Japanese: “フエルテ・オリンポ”
  • Kannada: “ಫುಯೆರ್ಟೆ ಓಲಿಪೋ”
  • Korean: “푸에르테올림포”
  • Latvian: “Fuerteolimpo”
  • Lithuanian: “Fuerte Olimpas”
  • Malay: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Marathi: “फ्युरटे ओलिम्पो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Polish: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Portuguese: “Forte Olimpo”
  • Portuguese: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Romanian: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Russian: “Фуэрте-Олимпо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුඑර්ටේ ඔලිම්පියෝ, පැරගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුඑර්ටේ ඔලිම්පියෝ”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Swedish: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Tamil: “பியூவெர்டே ஒலிம்போ”
  • Telugu: “ఫుయెర్టే వొలింపొ”
  • Thai: “ฟูเอร์เตโอลิมโป”
  • Turkish: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Turkish: “Fuete Olimpo”
  • Ukrainian: “Фуерте-Олімпо”
  • Urdu: “فویرتی اولیمپو”
  • Vietnamese: “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fuerte Olimpo”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥林波堡”

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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 “Fuerte Olimpo”. Photo: globevisions, CC BY 2.0.