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5 unusual facts about Riosucio


Riosucio

The region of Urabá and Darien began in 1501 with the first Spaniard explorations of Rodrigo de Bastidas, Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Juan de la Cosa.

The indigenous communities were made by peoples of the Emberá and Katio nations.

The historical site of Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first European settlement built in the Americas mainland in 1510 by Alonso de Ojeda and destroyed in 1517 by the indios and therefore abandoned.

To travel to the State capital, Quibdó at its south, people use the river and the same to reach the Gulf of Urabá and therefore the Turbo Port.

William Naranjo

William de Jesús Naranjo Jaramillo (born August 18, 1978 in Riosucio, Caldas) is a male long-distance runner from Colombia, who twice represented his native country at the Pan American Games (2003 and 2007).


Acandí

Part and is one of the constituent territories of the region of Darién together with the towns of Unguía Jurado and the municipality of Riosucio west of Atrato river, in the northwestern department of Chocó and the border with Panama.


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