Maicao
Maicao is a city in the La Guajira department in northeastern Colombia, near the border with Venezuela.
Yrp, Public domain.
- Town with about 124,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (170 feet)
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab.
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab
The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab is a mosque in Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia.
Maicao
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Latitude
11.3773° or 11° 22′ 38″ north
Longitude
-72.2388° or 72° 14′ 20″ west
Open location code
77399QG6+WF
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OpenStreetMap feature
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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: “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”
- Urdu: “مایکاؤ”
- Vietnamese: “Maicao”
- Volapük: “Maicao”
- Waray (Philippines): “Maicao”
- Wayuu: “Maiko’u”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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La Guajira: Highlights
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