Tolú
Town in Sucre, Colombia
Municipality and town in Sucre Department, Colombia
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Flag
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Location of the municipality and town of Tolú in the Sucre Department of Colombia.
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(2018 census)[1]
Tolú is a small town in Sucre Department, northern Colombia on the Caribbean coast. The municipality has an area of 500 km2. It is named after the Tolú, one the pre-Columbian indigenous people of the North Colombia lowlands.[2]
The municipality of Tolú borders to the North with San Onofre, to the East with Toluviejo, to the South with Coveñas, Palmito and Sincelejo.
Notable people
- Héctor Rojas Herazo (1920–2002), novelist, poet and painter
See also
- Toluene
References
- ^ Citypopulation.de
- ^ Julian H. Steward, ed. (1948), Handbook of South American Indians, vol. 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 329–338
External links
- (in Spanish) Gobernacion de Sucre - Tolú
- (in Spanish) ToluCaribe.com - Recreación, Historia y Cultura de Tolú.
9°32′N 75°35′W / 9.533°N 75.583°W / 9.533; -75.583
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