Córdoba Department
Appearance
Department of Córdoba
Departamento de Córdoba | |
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![]() Córdoba shown in red | |
![]() Topography of the department | |
Coordinates: 8°45′N 75°53′W / 8.750°N 75.883°W | |
Country | ![]() |
Region | Caribbean Region |
Established | June 18, 1952 |
Capital | Montería |
Government | |
• Governor | Orlando Benítez (2020-2024) |
Area | |
• Total | 25,020 km2 (9,660 sq mi) |
• Rank | 15th |
Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 1,784,783 |
• Rank | 9th |
• Density | 71/km2 (180/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-05 |
ISO 3166 code | CO-COR |
Municipalities | 30 |
HDI (2019) | 0.716[2] high · 29th of 33 |
Website | www.cordoba.gov.co |
Córdoba Department (Spanish: Departamento de Córdoba) is a department of Colombia. It is located to the north of this country in the Colombian Caribbean Region. The capital is Montería. In 2013, 1,658,090 people lived there.
Municipalities
[change | change source]These municipalities are in the department:
- Ayapel
- Buenavista
- Canalete
- Cereté
- Chimá
- Chinú
- Ciénaga de Oro
- Cotorra
- La Apartada
- Lorica
- Los Córdobas
- Momil
- Moñitos
- Montelíbano
- Montería
- Planeta Rica
- Pueblo Nuevo
- Puerto Escondido
- Puerto Libertador
- Purísima
- Sahagún
- San Andrés de Sotavento
- San Antero
- San Bernardo del Viento
- San Carlos
- San José de Uré
- San Pelayo
- Tierralta
- Tuchín
- Valencia
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "DANE". Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Government of Cordoba official website Archived 2004-08-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)