Villazón and La Quiaca
The two border towns Villazón in Bolivia and La Quiaca in Argentina are a pair spreading across the two countries. Most visitors just hurry across the border and on to their next destination, but it's worth stopping for at least a few hours or even a night…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
- Type: Town with 13,800 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “La Quiaca”
Places of Interest
Highlights include La Quiaca train station and Villazón railway station.
La Quiaca train station
Railway station
Photo: Loco085, CC BY-SA 2.5.
La Quiaca train station is a railway station.
Villazón and La Quiaca
- Categories: municipality, border city, and locality
- Location: Departamento de Yaví, Jujuy, Andean Northwest, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.1045° or 22° 6′ 16″ southLongitude
-65.5967° or 65° 35′ 48″ westPopulation
13,800Elevation
3,408 metres (11,181 feet)United Nations Location Code
AR LQUOpen location code
579PVCW3+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 198457686OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Villazón and La Quiaca” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լա Կիակա”
- Catalan: “La Quiaca”
- Cebuano: “La Quiaca”
- Chinese: “拉基亞卡”
- Dutch: “La Quiaca”
- French: “La Quiaca”
- German: “La Quiaca”
- Greek: “Λα Κιάκα”
- Hebrew: “לה קיאקה”
- Italian: “La Quiaca”
- Japanese: “ラ・キアカ”
- Japanese: “ラ・クイアカ”
- Lithuanian: “La Kiaka”
- Lithuanian: “La Kjaka”
- Persian: “لا کوایاکا”
- Polish: “La Quiaca”
- Portuguese: “La Quiaca”
- Russian: “Ла-Кьяка”
- Spanish: “La Quiaca”
- Spanish: “Villazón y La Quiaca”
- Swedish: “La Quiaca”
- Turkish: “La Quiaca”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-К’яка”
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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 “Villazón and La Quiaca”. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.