Isla Malpelo
Malpelo Island is in the Pacific Ocean 400 km west of Colombia. The island has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Some divers know it as "shark heaven."…
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- …lies at an elevation of around 360 metres (1,180 feet)
- …is also known as “Archipiélago Malpelo”
- …was formerly known as “Malpelo Island”
- Description: Colombian island
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Latitude
4.0031° or 4° 0′ 11″ north
Longitude
-81.6091° or 81° 36′ 33″ west
Open location code
66PW293R+69
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Isla Malpelo” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մալպելո”
- Azerbaijani: “Malpelo adası”
- Basque: “Malpelo uhartea”
- Catalan: “Illa de Malpelo”
- Cebuano: “Isla Malpelo”
- Chinese: “馬爾佩洛島”
- Chinese: “马尔佩洛岛”
- Croatian: “Malpelo”
- Czech: “Malpelo Island”
- Czech: “Malpelo”
- Danish: “Malpelo Island”
- Danish: “Malpelo”
- Dutch: “Malpelo Island”
- Dutch: “Malpelo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا ريجيون اينسولار ديل پاسيفيكو فلورا واى فاونا”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Malpelo”
- Finnish: “Malpelo”
- Finnish: “Malpelosaari”
- French: “Île de Malpelo”
- French: “Malpelo”
- Galician: “Illa de Malpelo”
- Georgian: “მალპელო”
- German: “Malpelo Island”
- German: “Malpelo”
- Hebrew: “האי מלפלו”
- Hebrew: “מלפלו”
- Hungarian: “Malpelo Fauna- és Flórarezervátum”
- Italian: “Isola di Malpelo”
- Italian: “Isola Malpelo”
- Japanese: “マルペロ動植物保護区”
- Japanese: “マルペロ島”
- Latvian: “Malpelo”
- Lithuanian: “Malpelas”
- Lithuanian: “Malpelo sala”
- Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Malpelo”
- Maltese: “Malpelo”
- Maltese: “Santwarju tal-Fawna u tal-Flora ta‘ Malpelo”
- Persian: “جزیره مالپلو”
- Polish: “Malpelo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Malpelo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Malpelo”
- Portuguese: “Malpelo”
- Russian: “Мальпело”
- Russian: “Остров Мальпело”
- Slovenian: “Malpelo (otok)”
- Slovenian: “Malpelo”
- Spanish: “Isla de Malpelo”
- Spanish: “Isla Malpelo”
- Spanish: “Malpelo”
- Swedish: “Malpelo”
- Turkish: “Malpelo Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Мальпело”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Мальпело”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Malpelo”
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