Cabo Corrientes, Chocó
Cabo Corrientes is a cape on the Pacific coast of Colombia in the Chocó Department.
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  Cabo Corrientes | |
| Coordinates: 5.483568°N 77.537088°W | |
| Offshore water bodies | Pacific Ocean |
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]
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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, retrieved 2017-06-20
- Pacific Coast: Cabo Corrientes-Togoromá, U.S. Geological Survey, retrieved 2017-06-24
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