Colombia
Costa Norte
La Guajira

Riohacha

Riohacha is the capital of the department of . The city with 188,000 inhabitants is on the Caribbean coast and the land behind the town is rather desert-like.
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  • Type: City with 287,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Colombian department of La Guajira
  • Also known as: “Rio de la Hacha” and “Riochacha”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Almirante Padilla Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the coastal city of Riohacha in the Guajira Department of . It is served by Avianca, and formerly by Tiara Air and Viva Air Colombia. The airport is on the southwestern edge of the city.

Riohacha

Latitude
11.5449° or 11° 32′ 42″ north
Longitude
-72.9151° or 72° 54′ 54″ west
Population
287,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
RCH
United Nations Location Code
CO RCH
Open location code
7739G3VM+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1834139017
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3670745
Wiki­data ID
Q826566
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Riohacha” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Riohacha”
  • Arabic: “ريوهاتشا”
  • Asturian: “Riohacha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rioaça”
  • Belarusian: “Рыяача”
  • Bengali: “রিওহাকা”
  • Bulgarian: “Риоача”
  • Catalan: “Riohacha”
  • Cebuano: “Ríohacha”
  • Cebuano: “Süchiimma”
  • Chinese: “Riohacha”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “ריואצ’ה”
  • Hindi: “रियोहाचा”
  • Hungarian: “Riohacha”
  • Indonesian: “Riohacha”
  • Irish: “Riohacha”
  • Italian: “Riohacha”
  • Japanese: “リオアチャ”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯೊಹಾಚಾ”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Риоачæ”
  • Papiamento: “Riohacha”
  • Persian: “ریوآچا”
  • Polish: “Rio de la Hacha”
  • Polish: “Riohacha”
  • Polish: “Ríohacha”
  • Portuguese: “Riohacha”
  • Quechua: “Riohacha”
  • Russian: “Риоача”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Riohacha”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ríohacha”
  • Sinhala: “රයෝහචා, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “රයෝහචා”
  • Slovenian: “Riohacha”
  • Spanish: “Municipio Riohacha”
  • Spanish: “Río de la Hacha”
  • Spanish: “Riohacha”
  • Swedish: “Riohacha”
  • Tagalog: “Riohacha”
  • Tamil: “ரிசாகக்ஹா”
  • Tatar: “Риоача”
  • Telugu: “రియోహాచా”
  • Thai: “ริโออาชา”
  • Turkish: “Riohacha (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Riohacha belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Riohacha”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріоача”
  • Urdu: “ریوآچا”
  • Venetian: “Riohacha”
  • Vietnamese: “Riohacha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Riohacha”
  • Wayuu: “Süchiimma”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریؤہاچا”
  • Wu Chinese: “里奥阿查”

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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 “Riohacha”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.