Cabo Corrientes is a cape on the Pacific coast of Colombia in the
Chocó Department
Chocó Department () is a department of the Pacific region of Colombia known for hosting the largest Afro-Colombian population in the nation, and a large population of Amerindian and mixed African-Amerindian Colombians. It is in the west of the ...
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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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