Punta Gallinas
Punta Gallinas is a headland in northern Colombia. Located in Uribia Municipality, La Guajira Department, it is the northernmost point on the mainland of South America, and one of the extreme points of South America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in northern Colombia
- Also known as: “Punta de Gallinas” and “Punta Poinö”
Punta Gallinas
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: La Guajira, Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.4585° or 12° 27′ 31″ northLongitude
-71.6685° or 71° 40′ 7″ westElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
774CF85J+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1181555735OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Punta Gallinas” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Qalinas burnu”
- Belarusian: “Галынас”
- Belarusian: “Гальінас”
- Belarusian: “Мыс Гальінас”
- Breton: “Punta Gallinas”
- Catalan: “Punta Gallinas”
- Cebuano: “Punta Gallinas”
- Czech: “Gallinas”
- Czech: “mys Gallinas”
- Czech: “Punta Gallinas”
- Dutch: “Punta Gallinas”
- Esperanto: “Punta Gallinas”
- French: “Punta Gallinas”
- Georgian: “პუნტა-გალინასი”
- German: “Punta Gallinas”
- Hungarian: “Gallinas-fok”
- Hungarian: “Punta Gallinas”
- Japanese: “ガイナス岬”
- Kabardian: “Галинас”
- Kazakh: “Гальинас”
- Kirghiz: “Гальвнас”
- Kirghiz: “Гальинас”
- Latvian: “Galjinasa rags”
- Lithuanian: “Galjinaso kyšulys”
- Mingrelian: “პუნტა-გალინასი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Punta Gallinas”
- Norwegian: “Punta Gallinas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Punta Gallinas”
- Polish: “Gallinas”
- Portuguese: “Punta Gallinas”
- Russian: “Гальинас”
- Russian: “Мыс Гальинас”
- Serbian: “Punta Gallinas”
- Serbian: “Пунта Гаљинас”
- Spanish: “Punta Gallinas”
- Swedish: “Punta Gallinas”
- Ukrainian: “Галіннас”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Галіннас”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Галлінас”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Гальїнас”
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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 Wikipedia page “Punta Gallinas”. Photo: Uhkabu, CC BY-SA 3.0.