Galeras, Sucre | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Colombia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Colombia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Sucre Department |
Leader Title: | Major |
Leader Name: | Francisco Ramirez Mejía |
Area Total Km2: | 326.1 |
Population As Of: | Census 2018[1] |
Population Total: | 20239 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Elevation M: | 80 |
Galeras is a town and municipality located in the Sucre Department, northern Colombia.[2] The main economic activities are agriculture and cattle raising. Galeras is 50 km away from the department's capital, Sincelejo.
Galera is a municipality formed by five "corregimientos": Puerto Franco, Baraya, San Andrés de Palomo, San José de Rivera, Pueblo Nuevo Junín., and seventeen "veredas":Pueblo Nuevo II, Surban, Abre el Ojo, Mata de Guasimo, Palmital, Bleo, San Pelayo, Los Leones, El Jacinto, La Corocera, San Luís, El Pantanito, El Guamo, Los Abetos, Caña Seca, Mancomojan, Campo Ameno.
Every year in the year's first week its people enjoy the town's main party: El festival de la algarroba (The festival of algarroba).The Algarroba (Hymenaea courbaril (Caesalpinaceae)) is a tree that grows easily in Galeras.