Pampatar
Pampatar is a city on Margarita Island. The Castillo de San Carlos de Borromeo on the waterfront in the center of town. Constructed entirely of coral, the fort, built by the Spanish in 1662 after the original was destroyed by the Dutch.
- Type: City with 65,000 residents
- Description: city in Nueva Esparta, Margarita Island, Venezuela
- Also known as: “Pampatar, Margarita Island”, “Panpatar”, and “Pompatar”
Pampatar
- Category: locality
- Location: Maneiro Municipality, Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta, Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, South America
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Latitude
10.9957° or 10° 59′ 45″ north
Longitude
-63.8051° or 63° 48′ 18″ west
Population
65,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
United Nations Location Code
VE PMP
Open location code
772RX5WV+7X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Pampatar” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Pampatar”
- Bulgarian: “Пампатар”
- Catalan: “Pampatar”
- Cebuano: “Pampatar”
- Chinese: “潘帕塔尔”
- Chinese: “潘帕塔爾”
- Dutch: “Pampatar”
- French: “Pampatar”
- German: “Pampatar”
- Hindi: “पाम्पातार”
- Italian: “Pampatar”
- Japanese: “パンパタル”
- Persian: “پمپاتار”
- Polish: “Pampatar”
- Portuguese: “Pampatar”
- Russian: “Пампатар”
- Sinhala: “පම්පටාර්, නුඑවා එස්පර්ටා”
- Spanish: “Pampatar, Nueva Esparta, Isla de Margarita”
- Spanish: “Pampatar”
- Swedish: “Pampatar”
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