La Tortuga Island
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Key facts
- Location
- Caribbean Sea
- Coordinates
- 10°55′54″N 65°18′29″W / 10.93167°N 65.30806°W / 10.93167; -65.30806
- Area
- 156.60 km (60.46 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 45 m (148 ft)
- Highest point
- Altos de Garambeo
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Lesser Antilles
- Country
- Venezuela
- Located in
- Federal Dependencies
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 156.6
- Elevation
- 41
- Time zone
- UTC−04:30
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Mapa isla la tortuga.svg
- Width
- 10
- Length
- 25
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Encyclopedic overview
La Tortuga Island (Spanish: Isla La Tortuga; "La Tortuga" means literally "the turtle") is an uninhabited island of Venezuela, the largest in the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is part of a group of islands that include the Tortuguillos and Cayo Herradura. Isla La Tortuga has an area of 156 km (60 sq mi).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Tortuga Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.