Cocorná is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. Part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia.
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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 | |
Country | ![]() |
Region | Andean Region |
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 |
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.
Climate data for Cocorná | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °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) |
Average low °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 |
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Source 2: [4] |
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.
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