Cabo Corrientes is a cape on the Pacific coast of Colombia 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 ...
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Cabo Corrientes is at the southern end of the
Gulf of Tribugá.
The cape is about north of the Quebrada de Togoromá.
The coast to the south has a chain of low barrier islands, less than high, behind which there are lagoons, mangrove swamps and a narrow belt of freshwater swamps.
The cape divides the
Esmeraldes-Pacific Colombia mangroves ecoregion into two large zones, one to the north and the other to the south.
Cabo Corrientes is close to
Nuquí, to the north, where the government is planning to build a major port.
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