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El Carmen de Bolívar
Bolívar, Colombia · South America
About El Carmen de Bolívar
El Carmen de Bolívar sits on the route: 25 minutes from San Jacinto.
El Carmen de Bolívar is in Bolívar, Colombia, with about 48,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is San Jacinto, about 12 km away.
El Carmen de Bolívar is a municipality in the department of Bolívar, Colombia, 114 km southeast of Cartagena de Indias. It is located in the orographic system of the Montes de María, being the largest population, as well as the one that concentrates the economic and commercial movement of the subregion. It is theRead more
third most populated municipality in the department and an important agricultural center, considered "the agricultural and food pantry of the department of Bolívar" for being a great supplier to the entire department of products, especially avocado, tobacco, cocoa, banana, yam and sesame. This is how it is known as the Sweet City of Colombia since a part of its economy is based on food processing such as Chepacorinas Cookies, Coco Casadilla, Panochas, among others.
As for transport infrastructure, its geographically privileged position makes it conducive to the construction of a dry port. Since it connects the Colombian Caribbean with the Santanderes through the Ruta del Sol, it is also a key point of connection of the west of the country to the large ports of Barranquilla and Cartagena by the Troncal de Occidente; and through the Transversal Montes de María communicates this important national road artery with the Gulf of Morrosquillo.
During the time of Independence, the municipality distinguished itself by the support of its inhabitants to the liberating cause led by Colonel Manuel Cortés Campomanes, which earned her the time to be erected in a village in 1812. In the second half of the nineteenth century it acquired strategic and economic importance at the start of trade in agricultural producers such as tobacco and coffee through the Port of Jesus del Río, on the Magdalena River towards Barranquilla, which allowed it to become one of the main export centers of the country until the first half of the twentieth century.
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El Carmen de Bolívar is in Bolívar, Colombia, about 12 km from San Jacinto.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 47,957
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- Bolívar
- Timezone
- America/Bogota
- Coordinates
- 9.7174, -75.1202
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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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