Ráquira

Ráquira is a small town in known for its Sunday artisan market with traditional northern Andean pottery & hand-woven goods.
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  • Type: Village with 2,120 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
  • Also known as: Raquira

Ráquira

Latitude
5.538° or 5° 32′ 17″ north
Longitude
-73.6322° or 73° 37′ 56″ west
Population
2,120
Elevation
2,165 metres (7,103 feet)
Open location code
67Q8G9Q9+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12431490061
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3670966
Wiki­data ID
Q1526054
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Ráquira” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Ráquira (Colombia)
  • Asturian: Ráquira
  • Cebuano: Ráquira
  • Chinese: Ráquira
  • Chinese: 拉基拉
  • Dutch: Raquira
  • Dutch: Ráquira
  • French: Ráquira
  • Galician: Ráquira
  • Georgian: რაკირა
  • Irish: Ráquira
  • Italian: Raquira
  • Italian: Ráquira
  • Kotava: Ráquira
  • Malay: Ráquira
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ráquira
  • Persian: راکیرا
  • Polish: Ráquira
  • Portuguese: Raquira
  • Portuguese: Ráquira
  • Russian: Ракира
  • Spanish: Raquira
  • Spanish: Ráquira
  • Swedish: Ráquira
  • Tagalog: Ráquira
  • Turkish: Raquira (belediye)
  • Turkish: Ráquira (belediye)
  • Turkish: Raquira belediyesi
  • Turkish: Ráquira belediyesi
  • Turkish: Ráquira
  • Uzbek: Ráquira
  • Vietnamese: Ráquira
  • Waray (Philippines): Ráquira

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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 Wikivoyage page “Ráquira”. Photo: Futbolero, CC BY-SA 4.0.