La Macarena
La Macarena is a little Colombian pueblo in the southernmost part of El Meta. A remote outpost in the vast plains of the Orinoquía, it is best known as a base for visiting Caño Cristales, the so-called Most Beautiful River in the World, the Liquid Rainbow, the River of Seven Colors.Photo: Peterfitzgerald, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Peterfitzgerald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 26,900 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Meta
- Also known as: “La Macarena, Meta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include La Macarena Airport.
La Macarena Airport
Aerodrome
La Macarena Airport, also known as El Refugio Airport, is an airport serving the Guayabero River town of La Macarena in the Meta Department of Colombia.
La Macarena
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Meta Department, Orinoquía, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.1834° or 2° 11′ 0″ northLongitude
-73.7858° or 73° 47′ 9″ westPopulation
26,900Elevation
229 metres (751 feet)IATA airport code
LMCOpen location code
67J856M7+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 703168204OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“La Macarena” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “La Macarena (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “La Macarena”
- Catalan: “La Macarena”
- Cebuano: “La Macarena”
- Chinese: “La Macarena”
- Chinese: “拉馬卡雷納”
- Chinese: “瑪卡蓮娜”
- Chinese: “马卡雷纳”
- Dutch: “La Macarena”
- French: “La Macarena”
- Galician: “La Macarena, Meta”
- Galician: “La Macarena”
- Georgian: “ლა-მაკარენა (მეტა)”
- Georgian: “ლა-მაკარენა”
- German: “La Macarena”
- Hebrew: “לה מאקארנה”
- Irish: “La Macarena”
- Italian: “La Macarena”
- Japanese: “ラ・マカレナ (コロンビア)”
- Malay: “La Macarena, Meta”
- Malay: “La Macarena”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Macarena”
- Persian: “لا ماکارنا (متا)”
- Persian: “لا ماکارنا”
- Polish: “La Macarena”
- Portuguese: “La Macarena”
- Russian: “Ла-Макарена”
- Spanish: “La Macarena (Meta)”
- Spanish: “La Macarena”
- Swedish: “La Macarena”
- Tagalog: “La Macarena, Meta”
- Tagalog: “La Macarena”
- Turkish: “La Macarena (belediye)”
- Turkish: “La Macarena belediyesi”
- Turkish: “La Macarena”
- Urdu: “لا ماسارینا، میتا”
- Vietnamese: “La Macarena”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Macarena, Meta”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Macarena”
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