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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 | |
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Municipality & Town | |
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 Location of the municipality of Cocorná in the Antioquia Department | |
  Cocorná Location in Colombia | |
| Coordinates: 6°3′25″N 75°11′7″W / 6.05694°N 75.18528°W | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Region | Andean Region |
| Department |  Antioquia Department |
| Subregion | Eastern |
| Government | |
| • Alcalde | Hector Duque Ramirez |
| Area | |
| • Total | 210 km2 (80 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,300 m (4,300 ft) |
| Population (Census 2018[2]) | |
| • Total | 14,743 |
| • Density | 70/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
Geography
editCocorná has an extension of 210 km², with a mountainous territory, great extensions of forest, and many important rivers.
Climate
editCocorná has a relatively cool tropical rainforest climate (Af) due to altitude. It has very heavy rainfall year round.
| Climate data for Cocorná | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 26.8 (80.2) |
27.5 (81.5) |
27.7 (81.9) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.8 (80.2) |
27.0 (80.6) |
27.4 (81.3) |
27.3 (81.1) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.9 (80.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 21.5 (70.7) |
22.0 (71.6) |
22.3 (72.1) |
22.0 (71.6) |
22.0 (71.6) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.3 (70.3) |
21.3 (70.3) |
21.1 (70.0) |
21.7 (71.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 16.3 (61.3) |
16.5 (61.7) |
16.9 (62.4) |
17.2 (63.0) |
17.3 (63.1) |
16.8 (62.2) |
16.4 (61.5) |
16.5 (61.7) |
16.4 (61.5) |
16.4 (61.5) |
16.6 (61.9) |
15.3 (59.5) |
16.6 (61.8) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 255.7 (10.07) |
243.8 (9.60) |
328.8 (12.94) |
447.0 (17.60) |
483.9 (19.05) |
316.2 (12.45) |
306.0 (12.05) |
349.0 (13.74) |
471.7 (18.57) |
526.7 (20.74) |
460.8 (18.14) |
325.0 (12.80) |
4,514.6 (177.75) |
| Average rainy days | 16 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 20 | 233 |
| Source 1: [3] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: [4] | |||||||||||||
Economy
edit- Tourism
- Agriculture, specially of sugar and maize.
Roads
editIs 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
editCocorná 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
edit- Rivers where people can practice fishing, or simply enjoy the natural pools formatted by the river
- Water Falls there are many and very near to the municipality
- Forest very well conserved
- Landscape
References
edit- ^ "Municipalities of Colombia". statoids. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018" (in Spanish). DANE. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Cocorná climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Cocorná weather averages - Climate-Data.org". en.climate-data.org. Retrieved 2021-12-25.