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Amazonas Department

Leticia

Leticia is a city in the Amazonas department of . It is part of a contiguous settlement that includes in . On a nearby island in the river is Santa Rosa, which is part of .
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  • Type: City with 66,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Colombian department of Amazonas
  • Also known as: “City of Leticia”, “Leticia, Amazonas”, and “Letizia”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport.

Aerodrome
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is an located in Leticia, Colombia's southernmost city and capital of the Amazonas Department.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Rosa Island and Tabatinga.

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Santa Rosa is a small settlement on an island in . It is the Peruvian contribution to the triple border that includes in Brazil and Leticia in Colombia, both of which are more substantial settlements.

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is a Brazilian city on the triple border with , and , in the northwest of the state of . It forms a contiguous settlement with the town of Leticia, on the Amazon River.

Town
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is a populated centre in the Amazon River that serves as the Peruvian border crossing of Tres Fronteras, a triple border shared by Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.

Leticia

Latitude
-4.2129° or 4° 12′ 47″ south
Longitude
-69.9426° or 69° 56′ 33″ west
Population
66,000
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
Inception
April 25th, 1867
IATA airport code
LET
United Nations Location Code
CO LET
Open location code
677GQ3P4+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7985775004
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3676623
Wiki­data ID
Q214913
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Leticia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Leticia”
  • Arabic: “ليتيسيا”
  • Asturian: “Leticia (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Leticia”
  • Aymara: “Leticia (Kuluwya)”
  • Aymara: “Leticia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Letisiya”
  • Belarusian: “Летысія”
  • Bengali: “লেটিসিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Leticia”
  • Cebuano: “Leticia”
  • Chinese: “莱蒂西亚”
  • Chinese: “萊蒂西亞”
  • Croatian: “Leticia”
  • Czech: “Leticia”
  • Danish: “Leticia”
  • Dutch: “Leticia”
  • Esperanto: “Leticia”
  • Finnish: “Leticia”
  • Finnish: “Letícia”
  • French: “Leticia”
  • French: “Léticia”
  • French: “Tres fronteras”
  • Galician: “Leticia, Colombia”
  • Galician: “Leticia”
  • German: “Leticia”
  • Greek: “Λετίσια”
  • Gujarati: “લેટીસિયા”
  • Hebrew: “לטיסיה”
  • Hindi: “लेटिसिया”
  • Iloko: “Leticia, Amazonas”
  • Iloko: “Leticia”
  • Indonesian: “Leticia, Kolombia”
  • Indonesian: “Leticia”
  • Irish: “Leticia”
  • Italian: “Leticia”
  • Japanese: “レティシア”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆಟಿಷಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “레티시아”
  • Latvian: “Letisija”
  • Lithuanian: “Letisija”
  • Malay: “Leticia, Colombia”
  • Marathi: “लेटीशीया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Leticia (Steed uun Kolumbien)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Leticia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leticia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leticia”
  • Norwegian: “Leticia”
  • Ossetian: “Летиси”
  • Persian: “لتیسیا”
  • Polish: “Leticia”
  • Portuguese: “Leticia”
  • Portuguese: “Letícia”
  • Portuguese: “Letizia”
  • Quechua: “Leticia”
  • Russian: “Летисия”
  • Russian: “Летиция”
  • Rusyn: “Летиция”
  • Scots: “Leticia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Leticia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Leticia, Kolumbija”
  • Sinhala: “ලේටිසියා, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ලේටිසියා”
  • Slovenian: “Leticia, Kolumbija”
  • Slovenian: “Leticia”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de Leticia”
  • Spanish: “Leticia Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Leticia Colombia”
  • Spanish: “Leticia”
  • Spanish: “Leticianos”
  • Spanish: “Letizia”
  • Swedish: “Leticia”
  • Tagalog: “Leticia, Amazonas”
  • Tagalog: “Leticia”
  • Tamil: “லேடிசியா”
  • Telugu: “లెటిషియ”
  • Thai: “เลติเซีย”
  • Turkish: “Leticia (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Leticia belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Leticia”
  • Ukrainian: “Летісія”
  • Urdu: “لیتیسیا، ایمازوناس”
  • Vietnamese: “Leticia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leticia, Colombia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leticia”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیتیکیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “莱蒂西亚”
  • Yiddish: “לעטיסיע”
  • Yoruba: “Leticia”
  • “Leticia”

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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 “Leticia”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 3.0 br.