Galeras is a town and municipality located in the

Sucre Department Sucre () is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The department ranks 27th by area, and it has a population of 904,863, ranking 20th of all the 32 departments of Colombia. Sucre is bordered by the Caribbean on the northwest; by Bo ...

, northern

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. The main economic activities are agriculture and cattle raising. Galeras is 50 km away from the department's capital, Sincelejo.

Geography

Political division

Galera is a municipality formed by five "corregimientos": Puerto Franco, Baraya, San Andrés de Palomo, San José de Rivera, Pueblo Nuevo Junín., and seventeen "veredas":Pueblo Nuevo II, Surban, Abre el Ojo, Mata de Guasimo, Palmital, Bleo, San Pelayo, Los Leones, El Jacinto, La Corocera, San Luís, El Pantanito, El Guamo, Los Abetos, Caña Seca, Mancomojan, Campo Ameno.

Culture

Every year in the year's first week its people enjoy the town's main party: El festival de la algarroba (The festival of algarroba). The Algarroba ( Hymenaea courbaril (Caesalpinaceae)) is a tree that grows easily in Galeras.

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