Puerto Berrío | |
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 Location of the municipality and town of Puerto Berrío in the Antioquia Department of Colombia | |
  Puerto Berrío Location in Colombia | |
| Coordinates:6°29′24″N74°24′9″W / 6.49000°N 74.40250°W /6.49000; -74.40250 | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Department |  Antioquia Department |
| Subregion | Magdalena Medio |
| Area | |
• Municipality and town | 1,220 km2 (470 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 6.15 km2 (2.37 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Municipality and town | 51,079 |
| • Density | 41.9/km2 (108/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 35,038 |
| • Urban density | 5,700/km2 (14,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |
Puerto Berrío is amunicipality and town in theColombiandepartment ofAntioquia. It is part of theMagdalena Medio Antioquia sub-region.
Puerto Berrío is located in a region of Antioquia known as the Middle Magdalena (near theMagdalena River). It is bounded on the north by the municipalities ofYolombó,Remedios andYondó, on the east by the department ofSantander, on the south by the municipalities ofPuerto Nare andCaracolí, and on the west by the municipalities ofCaracolí andMaceo. It is some 191 km away from the city ofMedellín, capital of Antioquia. The municipality has an extension of 1,184 km².
Puerto Berrio was founded in 1875 by Colombian GeneralRicardo Maria Giraldo. It became amunicipality in 1881.
In 1801,Alexander von Humboldt drew up an official sketch of the place then known as Great Eddy in the region of the today Puerto Berrío. Later, theCuban engineer Francisco Javier Cisneros, constructor of theAntioquia Railway, selected this same place to construct a port for the department of Antioquia by theMagdalena River, and also establish it as a railroad station.
In 1875, thegovernment of Antioquia ordered by decree the official establishment of the town and named it after former governor of Antioquia and General of ColombiaPedro Justo Berrío. Since then Puerto Berrío's development has been tied to the railroad. When the railways extended toMedellín in 1914 Puerto Berrio became an important port for shipments of products going over the Magdalena river, distributing Antioquia products to other main ports over the river and exports to through theCaribbean Sea.
In 1925, a fire devastated all the population, with the exception of the facilities of the Railroad. The town went through a reconstruction process to quickly recover. Puerto Berrío became epicenter of the regional commerce and site forced for the transit of load, passengers and tourists. This although economic one lasted until 1963, when Railroad of Antioquia was nationalized. Due to intensification of theColombian armed conflict the flow of the economy drastically decreased.
In 1991 in an effort to recover the government helped establish an association to recover the navigation. This was created, with constitutional rank, the Corporation of the Great river of the Magdalena, in order to recover the navigability of the river.
Nowadays, it is an intermediate city of great commercial movement, and is considered the capital of theAntioquian Mid-Magdalena, with a history related toMagdalena River and to Railroad of Antioquia. Its condition of multimodal port, the possibility of connection with Medellín,Bogotá,Santander Department and North Coast by land, and their airport, has been determining in the development of the region. Majestic Hotel Magdalena recovered well like witness of more than 125 years of history, and attractive the natural exuberantes, are his more appraised tourist treasures to the date.
| Climate data for Puerto Berrío (Morela Airport), elevation 150 m (490 ft), (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 33.4 (92.1) | 33.7 (92.7) | 33.0 (91.4) | 32.5 (90.5) | 32.5 (90.5) | 32.7 (90.9) | 33.0 (91.4) | 33.1 (91.6) | 32.3 (90.1) | 31.9 (89.4) | 32.1 (89.8) | 32.6 (90.7) | 32.7 (90.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 28.9 (84.0) | 29.2 (84.6) | 28.9 (84.0) | 28.6 (83.5) | 28.6 (83.5) | 28.6 (83.5) | 28.7 (83.7) | 28.6 (83.5) | 28.3 (82.9) | 28.0 (82.4) | 28.0 (82.4) | 28.4 (83.1) | 28.5 (83.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.9 (73.2) | 23.2 (73.8) | 23.3 (73.9) | 23.3 (73.9) | 23.3 (73.9) | 23.0 (73.4) | 22.7 (72.9) | 22.6 (72.7) | 22.6 (72.7) | 22.7 (72.9) | 23.0 (73.4) | 23.1 (73.6) | 23.0 (73.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 49.0 (1.93) | 85.1 (3.35) | 187.4 (7.38) | 318.6 (12.54) | 278.0 (10.94) | 225.5 (8.88) | 225.7 (8.89) | 264.7 (10.42) | 345.4 (13.60) | 316.4 (12.46) | 188.2 (7.41) | 104.1 (4.10) | 2,588 (101.9) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 7 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 189 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 77 | 76 | 78 | 81 | 81 | 80 | 79 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 81 | 80 | 79 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 217.0 | 175.0 | 145.7 | 159.0 | 186.0 | 198.0 | 226.3 | 223.2 | 186.0 | 176.7 | 183.0 | 201.5 | 2,277.4 |
| Mean dailysunshine hours | 7.0 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 6.2 |
| Source:Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales[3] | |||||||||||||
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