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Puerto Carreño
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consolidated municipality and capital of the Colombian department of Vichada
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Vinony's link graph records 48 inbound references to Puerto Carreño, and connects out to Venezuela, Vichada Department and Orinoquía natural region.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city.
Vinony files it under Capitals of Colombian departments, Colombia–Venezuela border crossings and Municipalities of Vichada Department.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- Orinoquía
- Department
- Department of Vichada
- Named after
- Pedro María Carreño, Commissioner 1912
- Mayor
- Jair Esteban Beltrán
- Consolidated capital city municipality
- 12,409 km (4,791 sq mi)
- Urban
- 7.5 km (2.9 sq mi)
- Metro
- 22.5 km (8.7 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 51 m (167 ft)
- Estimate 2023
- 22,500
- Density
- 1.6872/km (4.3697/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Carreñense
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( COT )
- Climate
- Am
- Website
- Government , Tourism Council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tourist destination
- Part of
- Vichada Department
- Official name
- Puerto Carreño
- Demonym
- Carreñenses
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Vichada Department
- Population
- 16763
- Area
- 12409
- Elevation
- 51
- Body of water
- Orinoco River
- Form of government
- direct democracy
- Shares border with
- Venezuela
- Official website
- www.puerto-carreno.com
- Image
- Iglesia de Puerto Carreño - panoramio.jpg
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- Commons category
- Puerto Carreño
- inception
- 1930-07-16
- postal code
- 990001–990017
- native label
- Puerto Carreño
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Encyclopedic overview
Puerto Carreño ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾto kaˈreɲo]) 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.
Puerto Carreño is also known as the Colombian city with more trees than most, it is known agriculturally for marañon fruit (cashew) and in the city limits there are more than a dozen different types of mango tree varieties.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puerto Carreño” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.