Arauca, officially Villa de Santa Barbara de Arauca, is the capital of Arauca Department in eastern Colombia, on the Arauca River, which forms the border with Venezuela. Founded on December 4, 1780, the municipality covers 5,788 square kilometers of flat, flood prone terrain and had a 2018 census population of about 85,585, with roughly 74,195 people in the urban area. The city has been known as the oil capital of Colombia since 1986, though cattle ranching remains a mainstay of its economy alongside petroleum extraction.
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1. Arauca, Arauca (Wikipedia)
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Arauca is a municipality and capital city of the Arauca Department of Colombia.
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 7.25, -70.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 7.25, -70.75
7.25 -70.75 Aw
3. GeoNames: Arauca - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3689718, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3689718, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
7.08471 -70.75908 P PPLA CO 03 81001 85585 132 America/Bogota
Arauca (Wikipedia)
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