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.
Cocorná has an extension of 210 km², with a mountainous territory, great extensions of forest, and many important rivers.
Cocorná has a relatively cool tropical rainforest climate (Af) due to altitude. It has very heavy rainfall year round.
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.
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.