Yondó
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Yondó is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. It is part of the Magdalena Medio Antioquia sub-region.
The first settlers arrived around 10,000 BC; archaeological site. The town was founded in 1941 to lodge the, at that time, discovered Casabe oilfield's engineers and workers of Shell Colombia S.A.(SCSA) Subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. The town became a municipality in 1979. It is a Magdalena river port, across a river from Barrancabermeja, where Colombia's oldest and largest oil refinery is located.
Statistics
- 07° 00' 28" latitude North; 73° 54' 51" longitude West; 75 m a.s.l. altitude
- Surface area 1,903 km²:[1]
- 30.2% natural forests, mostly secondary
- 55.1% pastures
- 10.6% secondary growth
- Annual rainfall 2,799 mm, no month below 100 mm; mean temperature year around 27.2 °C
- Total population 12,562; ca. 50% urban in the town seat, 50% rural
History
Yondó was an oilfield's worker camp built by the
FARC terrorist and invaders. The production facilities and camp installations were turned in to the government and were mostly ransacked and destroyed by thieves. This latter were destined to house bona fide and opportunist settlers and thus the new town was founded.[2]
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Notes
- ^ The area is given as 1,881 km2 by the Antioquia Department Planning Agency while the Colombian National Geographic Institute states it as 1,903 km2. There are also minor differences in altitude, urban area, etc.
- ^ Amparo Murillo Posada, Maria Teresa Arcila Estrada, Manuel Alberto Espinal, Giovani Restrepo Orrego, Gloria Estella Bonilla. 1994. Un mundo que se mueve como el río. Historia regional del Magdalena Medio. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología (ICANH), Bogotá.
References
- DANE. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
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