Riohacha, La Guajira Department, Caribbean Region, Colombia
🇨🇴 Riohacha, is a city in the Riohacha Municipality in the northern Caribbean Region of Colombia by the mouth of the Ranchería River and the Caribbean Sea. It is the capital city of the La Guajira Department. It has a sandy beach waterfront.
In the second half of the 20th century, the city developed as one of Colombia's medium important, maritime commercial ports. It is also a multicultural centre for La Guajira Department. The city is mentioned several times in novels written by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his important works are One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
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Riohacha has a population of over 188,000 people. Riohacha also forms the centre of the wider La Guajira Department which has a population of over 880,560 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Riohacha has links with:
🇼🇸 Apia, Samoa🇧🇷 Santa Rita 11.462
🇻🇪 Santa Ana de Coro 11.417
🇭🇹 Port-de-Paix -72.833
🇺🇸 New Britain -72.783
🇺🇸 West Hartford -72.75
🇨🇦 Shawinigan -72.731
🇭🇹 Saint-Marc -72.7
🇧🇷 Cruzeiro do Sul -72.667
🇺🇸 Northampton -72.65
🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933
🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933
🇺🇸 Brookhaven -72.933
🇺🇸 West Haven -72.95
🇨🇴 Piedecuesta -73
🇨🇱 Chiguayante -73.017
Locations Near: Riohacha -72.9069,11.5446
🇨🇴 Valledupar -73.253,10.465 d: 125.8
🇨🇴 Santa Marta -74.205,11.242 d: 145.5
🇨🇴 Agustin Codazzi -73.233,10.033 d: 171.8
🇻🇪 Maracaibo -71.625,10.655 d: 171.3
🇻🇪 Cabimas -71.45,10.4 d: 203.7
🇨🇴 Soledad -74.769,10.917 d: 214.7
🇨🇴 Barranquilla -74.8,10.99 d: 215.5
🇻🇪 Ciudad Ojeda -71.3,10.2 d: 230.5
🇻🇪 Punto Fijo -70.183,11.717 d: 297.2
Antipodal to: Riohacha 107.093,-11.545
🇮🇩 Cilacap 109,-7.733 d: 19542.6
🇮🇩 Singaparna 108.11,-7.35 d: 19535.5
🇮🇩 Tasikmalaya 108.198,-7.316 d: 19529.5
🇮🇩 Ciamis 108.333,-7.317 d: 19525.7
🇮🇩 Sukabumi 106.926,-6.921 d: 19500.7
🇮🇩 Purwokerto 109.23,-7.42 d: 19500.1
🇮🇩 Kebumen 109.661,-7.671 d: 19500.5
🇮🇩 Bandung 107.571,-6.877 d: 19493.4
🇮🇩 Cimahi 107.555,-6.871 d: 19493
🇮🇩 Purbalingga 109.364,-7.388 d: 19490.1