Tortuga

Tortuga Island is a West Indian that forms part of , off the northwest coast of . It constitutes the commune of Île de la Tortue in the of the department of Haiti.
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  • Type: Town with 25,900 residents
  • Description: Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti
  • Also known as: Tortuga Island” and “Turtle Island

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort de Rocher.

Archaeological site
was a seventeenth-century fortress on the island of Tortuga, northwest of Haiti. It was built and utilized by buccaneers as the primary defense of the island to prevent encroachment of forces.

Tortuga

Latitude
20.0318° or 20° 1′ 55″ north
Longitude
-72.7048° or 72° 42′ 17″ west
Population
25,900
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
77G927JW+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 618019861
Geo­Names ID
3716385
Wiki­data ID
Q208345
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tortuga” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: تورتوغا
  • Arabic: جزيرة السلاحف
  • Armenian: Տորտու
  • Basque: Tortuga uhartea
  • Belarusian: Востраў Тартуга
  • Belarusian: Востраў Тарцю
  • Belarusian: Тартуга
  • Belarusian: Тарцю
  • Breton: La Tortue
  • Bulgarian: Тортуга
  • Catalan: illa de la Tortuga
  • Catalan: Illa de la Tortuga
  • Catalan: Illa Tortuga
  • Cebuano: Île de la Tortue
  • Chinese: Tortuga
  • Chinese: 托尔蒂岛
  • Chinese: 托爾蒂島
  • Croatian: Tortuga
  • Czech: Tortuga
  • Danish: Île de la Tortue
  • Danish: Tortuga
  • Dutch: Ile de la Tortue
  • Dutch: Île de la Tortue
  • Dutch: La Tortue
  • Dutch: Tortuga
  • Egyptian Arabic: جزيره السلاحف
  • Esperanto: Insulo de la Testudo
  • Esperanto: Insulo Testudo
  • Finnish: La Tortue
  • Finnish: Tortuga
  • French: Ile de la tortue
  • French: île de la Tortue
  • French: Île de la Tortue
  • German: Île de la Tortue
  • German: Isla Tortuga
  • German: Schildkröteninsel
  • German: Tortuga
  • Greek: Τορτούγα
  • Haitian: Latòti
  • Hebrew: אי הצב
  • Hebrew: טורטוגה
  • Hungarian: Tortuga
  • Indonesian: Tortuga
  • Italian: Tortuga
  • Japanese: トルチュガ島
  • Japanese: トルチュ島
  • Japanese: トルトゥーガ島
  • Japanese: ラトーチュ
  • Korean: 라토티 섬
  • Korean: 라토티섬
  • Korean: 토르투가섬
  • Latin: Tortuga
  • Lithuanian: Tortuga
  • Min Nan Chinese: Tortuga (Haiti)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Île de la Tortue
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tortuga
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Ile de la Tortue
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Île de la Tortue
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tortuga
  • Norwegian: Tortuga
  • Persian: تورتوگا (هائیتی)
  • Persian: تورتوگا
  • Polish: Tortuga
  • Portuguese: Ilha Tortuga
  • Portuguese: Tortuga
  • Romanian: Île de la Tortue
  • Russian: Тортуга
  • Russian: Тортю
  • Serbian: Тортуга (Хаити)
  • Serbian: Тортуга
  • Spanish: Isla de la Tortuga
  • Spanish: Isla Tortuga
  • Spanish: Tortue
  • Swahili: Latoti
  • Swedish: Tortuga, Haiti
  • Swedish: Tortuga
  • Turkish: Tortuga
  • Ukrainian: Тортуга

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