Maicao
Maicao is a city in the La Guajira department in northeastern Colombia, near the border with Venezuela.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab.
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab
Mosque
Photo: Yrp, Public domain.
The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab is a mosque in Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia. It is the third largest mosque in Latin America. It is locally known as "La Mezquita", simply because it is the only mosque in the region.
Maicao
- Type: Town with 124,000 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: La Guajira, Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
11.3773° or 11° 22′ 38″ northLongitude
-72.2388° or 72° 14′ 20″ westPopulation
124,000Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)Open location code
77399QG6+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 703170222OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3675659Wikidata ID
Q1937427
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wayuu—“Maicao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مايكاو”
- Asturian: “Maicao (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Maicao”
- Catalan: “Maicao”
- Cebuano: “Maicao”
- Chinese: “Maicao”
- Chinese: “迈考”
- Chinese: “邁考”
- Danish: “Maicao”
- Dutch: “Maicao”
- Finnish: “Maicao”
- French: “Maicao”
- Galician: “Maicao”
- Georgian: “მაიკაო”
- German: “Maicao”
- Hebrew: “מאיקאו”
- Irish: “Maicao”
- Italian: “Maicao”
- Japanese: “マイカーオ”
- Japanese: “マイカオ”
- Lithuanian: “Maikao”
- Malagasy: “Maicao”
- Malay: “Maicao”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Maicao”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maicao”
- Norwegian: “Maicao”
- Persian: “مایکائو”
- Polish: “Maicao”
- Portuguese: “Maicao”
- Russian: “Майкао”
- Spanish: “Maicao”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Maicao”
- Swedish: “Maicao”
- Tagalog: “Maicao”
- Tatar: “Майкао”
- Turkish: “Maicao (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Maicao belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Maicao”
- Vietnamese: “Maicao”
- Volapük: “Maicao”
- Waray (Philippines): “Maicao”
- Wayuu: “Maiko’u”
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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 “Maicao”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.