Riohacha
Riohacha is the capital of the department of La Guajira. The city with 188,000 inhabitants is on the Caribbean coast and the land behind the town is rather desert-like.
- City with 287,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 7 metres (23 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code RCH
- Description: capital of the Colombian department of La Guajira
- Also known as“Rio de la Hacha”“Riochacha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Almirante Padilla Airport.
Almirante Padilla Airport
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Riohacha
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Latitude
11.5449° or 11° 32′ 42″ north
Longitude
-72.9151° or 72° 54′ 54″ west
UN/LOCODE
CO RCH
Open location code
7739G3VM+XX
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Riohacha” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Riohacha”
- Amharic: “ሪዮሃቻ”
- Arabic: “ريوهاتشا”
- Asturian: “Riohacha”
- Azerbaijani: “Rioaça”
- Azerbaijani: “Riohacha”
- Belarusian: “Рыяача”
- Bengali: “রিওহাকা”
- Bengali: “রিওহাচা”
- Bulgarian: “Риоача”
- Catalan: “Riohacha”
- Cebuano: “Ríohacha”
- Cebuano: “Süchiimma”
- Chinese: “里奥阿查”
- Chinese: “里奧阿查”
- Czech: “Riohacha”
- Danish: “Riohacha”
- Dutch: “Riohacha”
- Esperanto: “Riohacha”
- Finnish: “Riohacha”
- French: “Rio-de-la Hacha”
- French: “Riohacha”
- Galician: “Riohacha”
- Georgian: “რიოაჩა”
- German: “Rio de la Hacha”
- German: “Riohacha”
- Greek: “Ριοχάτσα”
- Gujarati: “રિયોહચા”
- Hausa: “Riohacha”
- Hebrew: “ריואצ’ה”
- Hindi: “रिओहाचा”
- Hindi: “रियोआचा”
- Hungarian: “Riohacha”
- Indonesian: “Riohacha”
- Irish: “Riohacha”
- Italian: “Riohacha”
- Japanese: “リオアチャ”
- Japanese: “リオハッチャ”
- Javanese: “Riohacha”
- Kannada: “ರಿಯೊಹಾಚಾ”
- Kazakh: “Риоача”
- Kirghiz: “Риоача”
- Korean: “리오아차”
- Ladino: “Riohacha”
- Latvian: “Rioača”
- Lithuanian: “Rioača”
- Lithuanian: “Riohača”
- Malagasy: “Riohacha”
- Malay: “Riohacha”
- Marathi: “रियोहाचा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Riohacha”
- Northern Frisian: “Riohacha (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Riohacha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riohacha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riohacha”
- Norwegian: “Riohacha”
- Oromo: “Riohacha”
- Ossetian: “Риоачæ”
- Panjabi: “ਰੀਓਹਾਚਾ”
- Papiamento: “Riohacha”
- Persian: “ریوآچا”
- Persian: “ریوهاچا”
- Polish: “Rio de la Hacha”
- Polish: “Riohacha”
- Polish: “Ríohacha”
- Portuguese: “Riohacha”
- Pushto: “ریوهاچه”
- Quechua: “Riohacha”
- Russian: “Риоача”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Riohacha”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ríohacha”
- Sinhala: “රයෝහචා, කොලොම්බියාව”
- Sinhala: “රයෝහචා”
- Slovak: “Riohacha”
- Slovenian: “Riohacha”
- Somali: “Riohacha”
- Spanish: “Municipio Riohacha”
- Spanish: “Río de la Hacha”
- Spanish: “Riohacha”
- Swahili: “Riohacha”
- Swedish: “Riohacha”
- Tagalog: “Riohacha”
- Tajik: “Риоача”
- Tamil: “ரிசாகக்ஹா”
- Tatar: “Риоача”
- Telugu: “రియోహాచా”
- Thai: “ริโออาชา”
- Turkish: “Riohacha (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Riohacha belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Riohacha”
- Ukrainian: “Ріоача”
- Urdu: “ریوآچا”
- Urdu: “ریوہاچہ”
- Uzbek: “Riohacha”
- Venetian: “Riohacha”
- Vietnamese: “Riohacha”
- Waray (Philippines): “Riohacha”
- Wayuu: “Süchiimma”
- Western Panjabi: “ریؤہاچا”
- Wu Chinese: “里奥阿查”
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