Puerto Carreño

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Puerto Carreño

Total population

15,753

Coordinates6.19°, -67.48°

Demographic figures from DANE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Puerto Carreño is the departmental capital city, and a municipality of the department of Vichada in the Llanos of Colombia located on the Orinoco River. Puerto Carreño is best-known as a tourist gateway to hundreds of adventure, ecological and sustainable tourism destinations, it is well-known for peacock bass fishing on the Vita River, Indigenous artisans from the Orinoquia, as a river port trade center, and as a frontier settlement that has become the capital of the second largest department (province) in Colombia.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

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