Puerto Carreño
Puerto Carreno
Picacho del Orinoco | |
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Consolidated Capital City | Municipality | |
| Puerto Carreño | |
From the top: Puerto Carreño skyline panorama, street in the city, statues of Indigenous peoples near docks, Orinoco River beach and a discoteque/restaurant floating on the Orinoco. | |
| Nickname: Capital of Indigenous Artisans | |
Location of the capital city and municipality of Puerto Carreño in the Department of Vichada. | |
| Coordinates: 6°11′25″N 67°29′01″W / 6.19028°N 67.48361°W | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Region | Orinoquía |
| Department | Department of Vichada |
| Foundation | 1913 |
| Named after | Pedro María Carreño, Commissioner 1912 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jair Esteban Beltrán |
| Area | |
| 12,409 km2 (4,791 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 7.5 km2 (2.9 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 22.5 km2 (8.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 51 m (167 ft) |
| Population (2018) | |
| 20,936 | |
• Estimate (2023) | 22,500 |
| • Density | 1.7/km2 (4.4/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 12,897 |
| • Metro | 14,974 |
| Demonym | Carreñense |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (COT) |
| Climate | Am |
| Website | Government Tourism Council |
Puerto Carreño (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾto kaˈreɲo]), translation English: Puerto Carreno, lit. 'Port Carreno' is the departmental capital city, and a municipality combined 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.