Cocorná Explained

Cocorná
Settlement Type:Municipality & Town
Pushpin Map:Colombia
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Colombia
Coordinates:6.0569°N -75.1853°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Colombia
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Andean Region
Subdivision Type2:Department
Subdivision Name2: Antioquia Department
Subdivision Type3:Subregion
Subdivision Name3:Eastern
Leader Title:Alcalde
Leader Name:Hector Duque Ramirez
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:210
Elevation M:1300
Population Total:14743
Population As Of:Census 2018[2]
Population Density Km2:auto

Cocorná is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. The population was 14,743 at the 2018 census. It is part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia.

Geography

Cocorná has an extension of 210 km², with a mountainous territory, great extensions of forest, and many important rivers.

Climate

Cocorná has a relatively cool tropical rainforest climate (Af) due to altitude. It has very heavy rainfall year round.

Economy

Roads

Is 90 km away from Medellín, 1 hour and a half in car, by an excellent road. It also has roads to the Corregimiento La Piñuela, and the municipalities of San Francisco and Granada.

Tourism

Cocorná has been since the 1980s a touristic place for many people, and since 2006, the government, believing in all the potential Cocorná has for it, has been sponsoring economical investments in the area.

New hotels, and many projects that involve new jobs, are the result of that.

Sites of interest

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Municipalities of Colombia. statoids. 28 April 2020.
  2. Web site: Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018. DANE. es . 28 April 2020.