Aracataca
Aracataca is a city in Colombia with a population of about 41,872.
ColombiaTown🏆 #121 most populated in Colombia🕐 America/Bogota
Aracataca is a town and municipality located in the Department of Magdalena, in Colombia's Caribbean Region. Aracataca is a river town founded in 1885. The town stands beside a small river of the same name, the Aracataca river, that flows from the nearby Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range into the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, a lagoon of the Caribbean Sea. Aracataca is 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of the Department capital Santa Marta. The town is best known as the birthplace of Nobel literature laureate Gabriel García Márquez.
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About Aracataca
| Country | Colombia |
| Continent | South America |
| Explore | 38 |
| Population | 41,872 |
| Local currency | COP |
| Coordinates | 10.5918, -74.1898 |
| Time zone | America/Bogota |
🧭 Facts & curiosities
| Settlement type | Town |
| Distance to the capital | 665 km · Bogota |
| Population (Colombia) | #121 most populated in Colombia |
| Where on Earth | 10°35′31″N · 74°11′23″W |
| Hemisphere | N · W |
| Distance to the equator | 1,179 km |
| Distance to the North Pole | 8,840 km |
| Did you know | More populous than 100% of all places |
| Same latitude as | Maroua (Cameroon) |
| Antipode (other side of Earth) | -10.59, 105.81 |
✈️ Distance to major cities
| New York | 3,349 km |
| São Paulo | 4,837 km |
| Los Angeles | 5,172 km |
| London | 7,987 km |
| Paris | 8,140 km |
| Moscow | 10,349 km |