El Fuerte de Samaipata
El Fuerte de Samaipata or Fort Samaipata, also known simply as "El Fuerte", is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Florida Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.Photo: Mhwater, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
Samaipata
Samaipata or Samaypata is a small town in the Florida Province of the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia.
El Fuerte de Samaipata
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site
- Inscription: Es considerado la mayor obra de arquitectura rupestre del mundo
- Wheelchair access: no
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Santa Cruz, Bolivia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.18182° or 18° 10' 55" southLongitude
-63.8189° or 63° 49' 8" westElevation
1,904 metres (6,247 feet)Open Location Code
57HRR59J+7COpenStreetMap ID
way 702931249OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap Attribute
wheelchair=noGeoNames ID
8410976Wikidata ID
Q876451El Fuerte de Samaipata Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: قلعة ساماي باتا
- Armenian: Ֆուերտե դե Սամայպատա
- Bashkir: Фуэрте-де-Самайпата
- Belarusian: Фуэртэ-дэ-Самайпата
- Catalan: Fort de Samaipata
- Cebuano: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Chinese: 萨迈巴达城遗址
- Croatian: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Czech: Samaipata
- Danish: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Dutch: Fuerte de Samaipata
- English: Fort Samaipata
- English: Fuerte de Samaipata
- English: Samaipata
- English: Samipata Fort
- Finnish: Fuerte de Samaipata
- French: Fuerte de Samaipata
- French: Samaipata
- Georgian: ფუერტე-დე-სამაიპატა
- Georgian: ფუერტე–დე–სამაიპატა
- German: Festung von Samaipata
- German: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Greek: Ελ Φουέρτε
- Greek: Ελ Φουέρτε ντε Σαμαϊπάτα
- Greek: Φουέρτε ντε Σαμαϊπάτα
- Hebrew: מבצר סמאיפאטה
- Italian: Forte di Samaipata
- Italian: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Japanese: サマイパタの砦
- Korean: 사마이파타 암벽화
- Lithuanian: El Fuerte de Samaipata
- Lithuanian: Samaipatos fortas
- Lithuanian: Samaipatos tvirtovė
- Persian: ال فورت د سامایپاتا
- Polish: Fort Samaipata
- Portuguese: Forte de Samaipata
- Quechua: Samaipata pukara
- Quechua: Samaypata pukara
- Russian: Фуэрте-де-Самайпата
- Serbo-Croatian: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Slovak: Samaipata
- Spanish: El Fuerte de Samaipata
- Spanish: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Spanish: Samaipata
- Swedish: El Fuerte
- Swedish: Fuerte de Samaipata (fornlämning i Bolivia)
- Swedish: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Turkish: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Ukrainian: Форт Самайпата
- Vietnamese: Fuerte de Samaipata
- Fuerte de Samaypata
Localities in the Area
- El FuerteHamlet
- TambilloHamlet, 2½ km west
- AchiraVillage, 3 km east
- Alto FloridaVillage, 3 km northwest
- CastillaHamlet, 3½ km northwest
Places in the Area
- El Peñón de Samaipata380 metres north
- Bodegas y Viñedos LandsuáRestaurant, 1¼ km west
- Estación de Bombeo y Compresion Samaipata2 km northeast
- Las Rocas Ecolodge & AdventureGuest house, 2½ km northwest
- Achira Sierra ResortResort, 2½ km north
Popular Destinations in Santa Cruz
Discover Santa Cruz, Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, San Ignacio de Velasco and Puerto Suárez.
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page El Fuerte de Samaipata. Photo: Mhwater, CC BY-SA 3.0.