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Country
  
Colombia

Local time
  
Monday 11:36 PM

Department
  
Chocó Department

Number of airports
  
1

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Time zone
  
Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5)

Weather
  
26°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 92% Humidity

Nuquí is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia. The municipality of Nuquí is located in the department of Chocó in the Western part of Colombia between the mountainous area of Baudó and the Pacific Ocean. Nuquí has a great ethnic and cultural diversity as well as a big variety of flora and fauna. Nuquí has 8.096 inhabitants, 3095 of which living in the municipal capital. The mayority of the population are Afro-Colombians, another part of the population is represented by members of indigenous tribes. Nuquí was founded as a municipality in 1915, before it was a sub-division of the municipality Valle, Chocó.

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Villages of the municipality of Nuquí

  • Arusí (Touristic)
  • Coquí (Touristic)
  • Joví (Touristic)
  • Jurubirá
  • Panguí
  • Termales (Touristic)
  • Tribugá

    • Economy

  • Fishing
  • Small-scale livestock farming and agriculture (banana, rice, cacao, mais, coconut, yuca and other tubers).
  • Tourism: Ecotourism and community-based tourism

    • Touristic sites

  • Hot springs
  • Beaches of Coqui
  • Mangrove forests of Coquí for tours in canoes
  • River of Joví for river tours
  • Guachalito
  • Surfing zones: Playa Olímpica, Guachalito near Terquito beach

    • References

    Nuquí Wikipedia
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