Tortuga
Tortuga Island is a West Indian island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola. It constitutes the commune of Île de la Tortue in the Port-de-Paix arrondissement of the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Fort de Rocher
Archaeological site
Fort de Rocher was a seventeenth-century fortress on the Caribbean island of Tortuga, northwest of Haiti. It was built and utilized by buccaneers as the primary defense of the island to prevent encroachment of Spanish forces.
Tortuga
- Category: island
- Location: Port-de-Paix Arrondissement, Nord-Ouest, Northern Haiti, Haiti, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
20.0318° or 20° 1′ 55″ northLongitude
-72.7048° or 72° 42′ 17″ westPopulation
25,900Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
77G927JW+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 618019861
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Satellite Map
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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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