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There are not many certified documents on the beginnings of this municipality, except for the general chronicles of the entire region where it is settled, Urabá. It is known that it was a typical region of conquerors and indigenous people fighting side by side. When present-day Colombia began to organize, that is known, Chigorodó belonged to the district or municipality of Turbo.

There are records that in 1912 there was an ordinance of the government of the Province of Antioquia, number 10 of that year, when Governor Clodomiro Ramírez ordered a strip of land from the Juradó River to be separated from Turbo to be added to the Pavarandocito River. It was on these dates, separation and ordinance, when the municipality of Chigorodó was officially created.

"Chigorodó" means, in indigenous language, "Río de Guaduas". This town, around 1878, was also called Nombre de Dios. It has also been called "The Cruise." As far as it is known, in the 1880s and until 1910, some tagua exploiters settled in Chigorodó.

In 1915, ordinance 52 of April 27 established the town of Chigorodó as a municipality. In this year, due to the decrease in the exploitation of tagua, its inhabitants emigrated to other areas and rice and cocoa began to be cultivated in the area, and it was also at this time that the exploitation of wood began in the place.

At present, Chigorodó is still that hot municipality but with large fresh rivers in which it is possible to swim or do boat tours. Next to it stands the Serranía de Abibe, a large water reserve in the Urabá subregion. Its economy depends on bananas, one of Colombia's main export products, and livestock, which attract many visitors to its traditional auctions, the busiest in the entire region.

Founders: José de los Santos Zúñiga, María Paredes, Celestino Díaz and Manuel Correa





Chigorodó is a municipality of Colombia, located in the subregion of Urabá in the department of Antioquia. It limits to the north with the municipality of Carepa, to the east with the department of Córdoba, to the south with the municipalities of Mutatá and Turbo and to the west with the municipality of Turbo. Its head is 306 kilometers from the city of Medellín, capital of the department of Antioquia. Its area is 685 square kilometers.

Appellate: Cultural hub of Urabá.

It has a district, Barranquillita, and 32 trails.

The name "Chigorodó" means in the indigenous dialect (Chigoro = Guaduas, and Do = Río), that is, Río de Guaduas. Towards 1878 it was called "Name of God". It has also been called ´´El Crucero´´.

Access roads

It has communication by paved road with the municipalities of Carepa and Mutatá, and by uncovered road with the hamlets of El Congo, and Quebrada Honda and has a small airport which was transferred to the Municipality of Apartado and in which some national airlines come to work .

Economy

Agriculture: Banana, Rice, Banana, Corn, Yucca

Cattle raising

Mining

Handicrafts: the community produces baskets and molas of the indigenous Catíos and cots.





Parties

Ecological festivals of the Guaduas River in March, very crowded

Agroindustrial and Artisan Fair, first week of April, emblematic festival

Festivities of San Sebastián, in January.

Places of interest

Historical artistic heritage:

Los Fundadores main park

Church of san sebastian

House of Culture Jaime Ortiz Betancur

Bust of José de los Santos Zúñiga, founder.

Ecological destinations:

Pastime Cattle Farm

Suspension bridge

Chigorodó River Beaches

El Gran Chaparral, a place for camping and sport fishing

Banana Zone; the intimacy of this industry is appreciated

Rivers León and Guapá, ecotourism

Serranía de Abibe; source of 28 rivers, and home to hundreds of species of fauna and flora, many of them endangered.

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