Santa Catalina Island (Colombia)

Santa Catalina Island
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Interactive map of Santa Catalina Island
Coordinates: 13°23′18″N 81°22′25″W / 13.38833°N 81.37361°W / 13.38833; -81.37361
Country Colombia
DepartmentSan Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
Population
 (2018)
 • Total
194[1]

Santa Catalina Island is a small Colombian island in the Caribbean Sea. It belongs to the San Andrés y Providencia Department of Colombia and is the northernmost island politically part of South America. The island has two bays: Old John Bay and Eliza Bay.

It is connected by a 100-metre (330 ft) footbridge to its larger sister Providencia Island, to the south.

The Head of Morgan, a rock formation on the island of Santa Catalina

It has a dry climate with two annual rain periods.

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