Bahía Solano is a municipality and town in the
Chocó Department
Choco Department is a department of Western Colombia known for its large Afro-Colombian population. It is in the west of the country, and is the only Colombian department to have coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It ...
,
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. Bahia, as it is locally known, is an economic and tourist center of coastal Choco. The municipal head is
Ciudad Mutis
Ciudad () is the Spanish word for City
Ciudad may also refer to:
*La Ciudad (archaeological site), Hohokam ruins in Phoenix, Arizona
*La Ciudad, district of Durango City, Mexico
*''La ciudad'', novel by Mario Levrero 1970
*La Ciudad ''The City'' ...
.
Bahia is home to
José Celestino Mutis Airport
José Celestino Mutis Airport ( es, Aeropuerto José Celestino Mutis) is an airport serving Bahía Solano, a municipality of the Chocó Department in Colombia.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has on ...
as well as seaport, and along with daily flights to and from Medellin, Quibdo, Cali, and Bogota, there are bi-weekly ships that take passengers and cargo from Bahia to the port of
Buenaventura. The region around Bahia Solano is home to scuba diving and sport fishing opportunities, providing a plethora of marine activities to the traveller. 18 km away from Bahia Solano, is the beach town of
El Valle, Choco
El Valle, Choco, is a beach town located in the Municipality of Bahía Solano, Department of Chocó, on Colombia's Pacific Coast, some 150 km West of Medellín, and roughly 100 km South of the border with Panama. There is one road c ...
, which is the closest community to
Ensenada de Utria National Park
Ensenada is a Spanish word meaning ''bay''.
Ensenada may also refer to:
Boats
*Ensenada 20, an American sailboat design
People
* N. Senada, a possible composer who is said to have collaborated with the rock band The Residents
* Marquis of En ...
, located only down the beach.
Climate
Bahía Solano has a very wet
tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...
(Af).
References
Weblinks
Alcaldía Municipal de Bahía Solano(Spanish)
Website for Eco Tourism(English)
Municipalities of Chocó Department
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