Punta Gallinas
Punta Gallinas is dunes and desert area in the department of La Guajira. Punta Gallinas is the most northern point of Colombia and South America. Beautiful dunes, desert, exotic beaches and sacred indigenous cultures, Punta Gallinas has a lot to offer.
- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
- Description: headland in northern Colombia
- Also known as“Punta de Gallinas”“Punta Poinö”
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
12.4586° or 12° 27′ 31″ north
Longitude
-71.6647° or 71° 39′ 53″ west
Open location code
774CF85P+C4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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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