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The history of Turbo began with the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to the Gulf of Urabá in 1501. Rodrigo de Bastidas and Juan de la Cosa were part of these expeditions. After a significant sequence of looting, burning and killing of indigenous people, the area was left to its own devices for several centuries.

At the end of the 18th century, the area gained prosperity due to the reactivation of trade. On August 28, 1840, the then president, Don José Ignacio de Márquez approved the creation of Turbo. Seven years later, under the administration of Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, it was elevated to the category of parochial district. In (1848), the municipality came under the jurisdiction of the state of Antioquia, although in 1850 it passed to Chocó and, six years later, to the jurisdiction of the state of Cauca. Finally, in 1910, he returned to Antioquia.





Turbo is a Colombian city located in the Urabá subregion of the Antioquia department and capital of this Antioquia region, it is also a Special Port District. It limits to the north with the Caribbean Sea and the municipality of Necoclí; to the east with the municipalities of San Pedro de Urabá and Apartadó and with the department of Córdoba; to the south with the municipalities of Carepa, Chigorodó and Mutatá and to the west with the department of Chocó. The municipality of Currulao was recently segregated from Turbo, but the Superior Court of Antioquia on November 28, 2008 notified that the Departmental Assembly was not the competent authority, so Currulao was once again part of the district. This is because the Congress of the Republic elevated Turbo to the category of district before the Departmental Assembly segregated Currulao, therefore, it is the Congress that must decide whether or not the new municipality is created.

Generalities

Founder: Baltasar de Casanova

Special Port District.

It got its name from the murky sea water. It has also been known as Pisisi and as Bodega Pisisi. It receives the nickname of the Land of the crab and the banana.

Geography

The municipality of Turbo is located north of the department of Antioquia, in the so-called Urabá area of ​​Antioquia. The municipality is bathed by the Caribbean Sea and the Atrato River. It has an area of ​​3,055 km², it also has an aerodrome, Gonzalo Mejía, an international port project and a highway that connects it with the departmental capital, Medellín.

Turbo was created as a District by the National Congress of Colombia at the end of the legislative period of 2007, turbo is located in the northeast of Colombia

Economy

The municipality lives mainly from the agricultural exploitation; banana and plantain plantations are the main activity, the one that employs the most people and the one that generates the most foreign exchange; In the last four years, activity has been disadvantaged by the revaluation of the Colombian peso against the dollar, which strongly reduces the income of the area. Some other primary activities are the exploitation of the Chocoana jungle, fishing and extensive cattle ranching.

Turbo port

Since 1997, the year in which a feasibility study was carried out to build a port in the municipality of Turbo, the necessary resources have been sought for its realization. This has been included as one of the strategic development projects of the department of Antioquia and all of Colombia, which will change and greatly boost the district's economy.





Places of interest:

Los Katíos National Park

Central Aquarium Park, Vía Turbo-Necoclí

Turbo Bay

Mouth of the Atrato River

Beaches

Sidewalks.

Recreational beaches La Martina

Pink Zone

Parties:

Sweet Festival (Holy Week)

Antioquia Day (August 11)

Great novembrino carnival, includes reign and celebration with famous artists.

Vallenato festival and Turbo birthday in August

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