Cocorná is a municipality

Municipality

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 in the Colombia

Colombia

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n department

Departments of Colombia

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 of Antioquia

Antioquia Department

Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part of the Andes mountain range...

. Part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia

Eastern Antioquia

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Geography

It has an extension of 210 km², with a mountainous territory, with great extensions of forest, and with many important rivers.

Roads

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.

Tourism

Cocorná has been since 1980s a touristic place for many people, and since 2006, the government, believing in the 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

• Rivers where people can practice fishing, or simply enjoy the natural pools formatted by the river

• WaterFalls there are many and very near to the municipality

• Forest
  Forest
  A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...
  
   very well conservated

• Landscapes