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Cocorná | |
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Municipality & Town | |
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 Location of the municipality of Cocorná in theAntioquia Department | |
  Cocorná Location in Colombia | |
| Coordinates:6°3′25″N75°11′7″W / 6.05694°N 75.18528°W /6.05694; -75.18528 | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Region | Andean Region |
| Department |  Antioquia Department |
| Subregion | Eastern |
| Government | |
| • Alcalde | Hector Duque Ramirez |
| Area | |
• Total | 210 km2 (81 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 is a town andmunicipality in theColombiandepartment ofAntioquia. The population was 14,743 at the 2018 census. It is part of the subregion ofEastern Antioquia.
Cocorná has an extension of 210 km², with a mountainous territory, great extensions of forest, and many important rivers.
Cocorná has a relatively cooltropical 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 |
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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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