Puerto bolivar range front light 12-15.16N 071-57.30W unlit
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 496/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-08-25 17:19Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · COLOMBIA 120/23 030751Z MAY 23.. Issued 2023-05-03 08:18Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 12.253, -71.955. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Cancel NAVAREA IV 496/23 and this msg, aid restoredlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2023-05-03 08:18Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- COLOMBIA 120/23 030751Z MAY 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COLOMBIA
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 12.253, -71.955
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. COLOMBIA. PUERTO BOLIVAR RANGE FRONT LIGHT 12-15.16N 071-57.30W UNLIT.
Reading this warning
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Unlit / extinguished
- A light, buoy or structure that is not showing its charted light.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
35 within 180 nm since 1998 · 5 in the last 12 months · 4 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Guaranao light 11-40.00N 070-12.80W unlit2026-08-17
- Cable buoy established in 12-28.30N 069-45.10W2026-07-26
- Puerto bolivar front range light 12-15.30N 071-57.50W unlit2026-06-10
- Punta perret light 11-47.68N 071-20.37W unlit2026-05-15
- Cabo negro light 11-30.15N 069-33.34W unlit2025-10-31
- Punta borojo light 11-12.08N 070-46.67W changed to fl w 11 sec 19 meters 18 miles2025-06-19
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
- Puerto bolivar front range light 12-15.30N 071-57.50W unlitNav aids · 0.2 nm
- Punta perret light 11-47.68N 071-20.37W unlitNav aids · 45.4 nm
- Punta borojo light 11-12.08N 070-46.67W changed to fl w 11 sec 19 meters 18 milesNav aids · 93.7 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 22:27Z; source collection times vary.
Nav aids
Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.