Cabo Corrientes, Chocó

Cabo Corrientes
Cape
Cabo Corrientes is located in Colombia
Cabo Corrientes
Cabo Corrientes
Coordinates: 5°29′01″N 77°32′14″W / 5.483568°N 77.537088°W / 5.483568; -77.537088
Offshore water bodiesPacific Ocean

Cabo Corrientes is a cape on the Pacific coast of Colombia in the Chocó Department.

Cabo Corrientes is at the southern end of the Gulf of Tribugá.[1] The cape is about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of the Quebrada de Togoromá. The coast to the south has a chain of low barrier islands, less than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, behind which there are lagoons, mangrove swamps and a narrow belt of freshwater swamps.[2] The cape divides the Esmeraldes-Pacific Colombia mangroves ecoregion into two large zones, one to the north and the other to the south.[3]

Cabo Corrientes is close to Nuquí, to the north, where the government is planning to build a major port.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Golfo de Tribugá – Nuqui Ekari.
  2. ^ Pacific Coast: Cabo Corrientes-Togoromá USGS.
  3. ^ Carlos Borda.
  4. ^ Cabo Corrientes - Choco Colombiano – City TV.

Sources

  • "Cabo Corrientes - Choco Colombiano", City TV, retrieved 2017-06-24
  • Carlos Borda, Northern South America: Northern Colombia, WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature, retrieved 2017-06-19
  • "Golfo de Tribugá", Nuqui Ekari (in Spanish), 2013, archived from the original on 2016-10-30, retrieved 2017-06-20
  • Pacific Coast: Cabo Corrientes-Togoromá, U.S. Geological Survey, retrieved 2017-06-24