Gocta
Gocta is a perennial waterfall with two drops located in Peru's province of Bongara in Amazonas, approximately 771 kilometres to the northeast of Lima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Peru
- Also known as: “Gocta Cataracts”, “Gocta Falls”, “Gocta Waterfall”, “Gocta, Catarata”, and “La Cataracta Gocta”
Gocta
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and body of water
- Location: San Carlos District, Bongará Province, Amazonas, Northern Sierra, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-6.0231° or 6° 1′ 23″ southLongitude
-77.887° or 77° 53′ 13″ westElevation
771 metres (2,530 feet)Open location code
6754X4G7+Q6OpenStreetMap ID
node 635239363OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfallGeoNames ID
11279269Wikidata ID
Q512389
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Gocta” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գոկտա”
- Asturian: “Catarata Gocta”
- Asturian: “Tabayón Gocta”
- Basque: “Gocta ur-jauzia”
- Catalan: “Gocta”
- Chinese: “戈克塔瀑布”
- Croatian: “Gocta”
- Croatian: “Vodopad Gocta”
- Czech: “Gocta”
- Dutch: “Gocta Cataracts”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوكتا كاتاراكتس”
- Esperanto: “Akvofalo Gocta”
- French: “Cascade de Gocta”
- French: “cataracte de Gocta”
- French: “Cataracte de Gocta”
- French: “Cataracte Gocta”
- Georgian: “გოკტა”
- Georgian: “გოქტა”
- German: “Catarata Gocta”
- German: “Gocta”
- Hebrew: “גוקטה”
- Hungarian: “Gocta-vízesés”
- Lithuanian: “Goktos krioklys”
- Low German: “Gocta-Waterfall”
- Luxembourgish: “Gocta-Waasserfall”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Goctafossen”
- Norwegian: “Goctafossen”
- Persian: “آبشار گوکتا کاتاراکس”
- Persian: “ابشار گوکتا کاتاراکس”
- Polish: “Gocta”
- Portuguese: “Catarata de Gocta”
- Quechua: “Gocta phaqcha”
- Quechua: “Quqta phaqcha”
- Russian: “Гокта”
- Spanish: “Cascada de Gocta”
- Spanish: “Catarata de Gocta”
- Spanish: “Catarata del Gocta”
- Spanish: “Catarata Gocta”
- Spanish: “Gocta”
- Spanish: “La chorrera de Gocta”
- Turkish: “Gocta Şelaleleri”
- Ukrainian: “Гокта”
- Western Panjabi: “گوکٹا چھمبر”
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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 “Gocta”. Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.