City · Colombia
Puerto Carreño
Puerto Carreño 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.
Good to know
- Population: 20,936.
- Founded: 1930.
- Known for: peacock bass fishing on the Vita River, indigenous artisans from the Orinoquia, as a river port trade center.
- Area: 12409 sq km.
- Timezone: America/Bogota.