Cartagena

Cartagena or Cartagena de Indias is a city and a world heritage site on 's Caribbean coast in the Bolívar. Founded by the Spanish in 1533, the impressive buildings from the Spanish time today make up a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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  • Type: City with 1,030,000 residents
  • Description: city in Bolívar Department, Colombia
  • Also known as: “Caratagena de Indias”, “Cartagena de Indias”, “Cartagena of the Indies”, and “Cartagena, Colombia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castillo San Felipe de Barajas and Puerta del Reloj.

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The is a fortress in the city of Cartagena, . The castle was built in 1639 and is located on the Hill of San Lázaro in a strategic location, dominating approaches to the city by land or sea.

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The , Torre del Reloj or Boca del Puente is the main of the historic center of Cartagena de Indias, in and the original entrance of the fortified city.

Library
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The is a Colombian library located in the Santo Domingo Square, Cartagena. The library was named after President Bartolomé Calvo. It is one of the most popular libraries in the country.

Cartagena

Latitude
10.4266° or 10° 25′ 36″ north
Longitude
-75.5442° or 75° 32′ 39″ west
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
CTG
United Nations Location Code
CO CTG
Open location code
7726CFG4+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 266642215
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3687238
Wiki­data ID
Q657461
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Cartagena” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Afrikaans: “Cartagena, Colombia”
  • Arabic: “قرطاجنة، كولومبيا”
  • Arabic: “قرطاجنة”
  • Arabic: “كارتاهينا”
  • Armenian: “Կարտախենա”
  • Armenian: “Նոր Կարթագեն”
  • Asturian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kartexena (Kolumbiya)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kartexena”
  • Balinese: “Cartagena, Kolombia”
  • Bambara: “Cartagena de indias”
  • Basque: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Bavarian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Belarusian: “Картахена”
  • Bengali: “কার্টাগেনা অব ইন্ডিয়াস”
  • Breton: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Bulgarian: “Картахена”
  • Burmese: “ကာတာဟေနာမြို့ ၊ ကိုလံဘီယာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ကာတာဟေနာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Cebuano: “Cartagena”
  • Chinese: “卡塔赫納”
  • Chinese: “卡塔赫纳”
  • Chinese: “印度群岛的卡塔赫納”
  • Chuvash: “Картахена (Колумби)”
  • Chuvash: “Картахена”
  • Croatian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Czech: “Cartagena”
  • Danish: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Dutch: “Cartagena”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارتاهينا”
  • Esperanto: “Kartageno”
  • Estonian: “Cartagena”
  • Fijian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Finnish: “Cartagena”
  • French: “Carthagène des Indes”
  • French: “Carthagène”
  • Gagauz: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Galician: “Cartaxena de Indias”
  • Georgian: “კარტახენა”
  • German: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • German: “Cartagena”
  • Greek: “Καρταχένα δε Ίνδιας”
  • Greek: “Καρταχένα”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્ટાગેના ઓફ ઇન્ડિયાસ”
  • Haitian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Hausa: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Hebrew: “קרטחנה”
  • Hindi: “कार्टाजेना”
  • Hungarian: “Cartagena”
  • Ido: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Indonesian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Irish: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Italian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Japanese: “カルタヘナ”
  • Javanese: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Kannada: “ಭಾರತದ ಕಾರ್ಟೆಜಿನಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Картахена”
  • Korean: “카르타헤나”
  • Kotava: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Kurdish: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Latin: “Carthago Indiarum”
  • Latvian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Latvian: “Cartagena”
  • Latvian: “Kartahena de Indjasa”
  • Latvian: “Kartahena”
  • Ligurian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Lithuanian: “Kartachena”
  • Luxembourgish: “love”
  • Malay: “Cartagena, Colombia”
  • Maltese: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Maltese: “Cartagena tal-Indji”
  • Marathi: “कार्टेजीना ऑफ इंडियास”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Minangkabau: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Moksha: “Картахэна дэ Индиас”
  • Moksha: “Картахэна”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cartagena (Steed uun Kolumbien)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cartagena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cartagena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cartagena i Colombia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cartagena”
  • Norwegian: “Cartagena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cartagena”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Ossetian: “Картахенæ (Колумби)”
  • Ossetian: “Картахенæ”
  • Papiamento: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Papiamento: “Cartagena”
  • Persian: “کارتاخنا”
  • Persian: “کارتاگینا”
  • Polish: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Portuguese: “Cartagena das Índias”
  • Portuguese: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Portuguese: “Cartagena, Colômbia”
  • Portuguese: “Cartagena”
  • Quechua: “Cartagena”
  • Romanian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Russian: “Картахена”
  • Scots: “Cartagena, Colombie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Serbian: “Картахена де Индијас”
  • Serbian: “Картахена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cartagena (Kolumbija)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cartagena”
  • Silesian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Sinhala: “කර්ටජෙනා ඉන්දියාව”
  • Sinhala: “කර්ටජෙනා, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Slovak: “Cartagena”
  • Slovenian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Slovenian: “Cartagena, Kolumbija”
  • Slovenian: “Cartagena”
  • Spanish: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Spanish: “Cartagena”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Cartagena”
  • Spanish: “Distrito Turístico, Histórico y Cultural”
  • Spanish: “El Corralito de Piedra”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad Amurallada”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad De La Paz”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad Heroica”
  • Spanish: “La Fantástica”
  • Sundanese: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Swedish: “Cartagena, Colombia”
  • Swedish: “Cartagena”
  • Tagalog: “Cartagena, Colombia”
  • Tamil: “கர்த்தெகனா, கொலம்பியா”
  • Tamil: “கார்டாஜெநா ஆப் இந்தியாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Картахена (Колумбия)”
  • Tatar: “Картахена”
  • Telugu: “కార్టజేనా ఆఫ్ ఇండియాస్”
  • Thai: “การ์ตาเฮนา”
  • Turkish: “Cartagena de Indias (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Cartagena de Indias belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Turkish: “Cartagena, Bolívar”
  • Turkish: “Cartagena, Kolombiya”
  • Turkmen: “Karfagen (Kolumbiýa)”
  • Turkmen: “Karfagen”
  • Ukrainian: “Картахена”
  • Urdu: “کارتاخینا، کولمبیا”
  • Urdu: “کارٹاجینا، کولمبیا”
  • Venetian: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Vietnamese: “Cartagena, Colombia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cartagena”
  • Vlaams: “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Volapük: “Cartagena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cartagena de Indias”
  • Wayuu: “Kattajeena”
  • Welsh: “Cartagena, Colombia”
  • Welsh: “Cartagena”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարթախենա (Քոլումպիա)”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարթախենա”
  • Western Frisian: “Cartagena (Kolombia)”
  • Western Frisian: “Cartagena”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارتاجینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡塔赫纳 (哥伦比亚)”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡塔赫纳（哥伦比亚）”
  • Yiddish: “קארטאכענא”
  • Yiddish: “קארטאכענע”
  • Yiddish: “קאַרטאַכענע”
  • Yoruba: “Cartagena, Colombia”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡塔赫納 (哥倫比亞)”
  • “Cartagena”
  • “Cartagena de Indias”

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