Atlántico Department

Atlántico (Spanish pronunciation:, English: Atlantic) is a department of Colombia in the north of the country, with the Caribbean Sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its west and south across the Canal del Dique, and the Magdalena Department to its east across the Magdalena River. Despite having the third-smallest area among Colombia's thirty-two departments, it is the fifth-largest by population with 2,535,517.

The department's capital and most-populous city is Barranquilla with a population of 1,327,209. Soledad and Malambo are also significant population centers; each of them is in the Barranquilla metropolitan area but counted separately.