Chocó
Chocó is a department in the Pacifica region of Colombia known for its large Afro-Colombian population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Quibdó and Capurganá.
Quibdó
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Quibdó is the capital city of Chocó Department, in the Pacific Region of Colombia, and is located on the Atrato River. The municipality of Quibdó has an area of 3,507 square kilometres and a population of 129,237, predominantly Afro Colombian, including Zambo Colombians.
Capurganá
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Capurganá is a city in the Choco region of Colombia. Despite the written accent on the final syllable, locals pronounce the town's name with the accent on the third syllable.
Sapzurro
Sapzurro is in Colombia, about roughly a quarter of the way from Capurganá in Colombia to Puerto Obaldia in Panama, and across the international boundary from Panamanian town of La Miel.Chocó
- Type: State with 413,000 residents
- Description: department of Colombia
- Also known as: “Chocó Department”, “Intendencia del Chocó”, and “Intendencia Nacional del Chocó”
- Neighbors: Antioquia and Valle del Cauca
- Categories: department of Colombia and locality
- Location: Pacifica, Colombia, South America
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Latitude of center
6° northLongitude of center
-77° or 77° westPopulation
413,000Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 306394516OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Chocó” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chocó”
- Arabic: “إدارة تشوكو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تشوكو”
- Armenian: “Չոկո”
- Asturian: “Chocó”
- Asturian: “departamentu de Chocó”
- Azerbaijani: “Çoko departamenti”
- Azerbaijani: “Çoko”
- Basque: “Choco”
- Basque: “Chocó”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Чако”
- Belarusian: “Чако, дэпартамент”
- Belarusian: “Чако”
- Bengali: “কুকো বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Chocó”
- Bulgarian: “Чоко”
- Catalan: “Chocó”
- Catalan: “Departament de Chocó”
- Cebuano: “Departamento del Chocó”
- Chinese: “Chocó”
- Chinese: “乔科省”
- Chinese: “喬科”
- Chinese: “喬科省”
- Croatian: “Chocó”
- Czech: “Chocó”
- Czech: “Departement Chocó”
- Danish: “Chocó Department”
- Dimli (individual language): “Çoko”
- Dutch: “Chocó”
- Esperanto: “Chocó”
- Esperanto: “Ĉokoo”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Ĉokoo”
- Estonian: “Choco departemang”
- Estonian: “Chocó departemang”
- Finnish: “Chocó”
- French: “Choco”
- French: “Chocó”
- French: “Département de Chocó”
- French: “Département du Chocó”
- Galician: “Chocó”
- Galician: “Departamento do Chocó”
- Georgian: “ჩოკოს დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Choco”
- German: “Chocó”
- German: “CO-CHO”
- German: “Departamento de Chocó”
- German: “Departamento del Chocó”
- Greek: “Τσοκό”
- Gujarati: “ચોકો વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז צ’וקו”
- Hebrew: “צ’וקו”
- Hindi: “चोको विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Chocó megye”
- Iloko: “Chocó”
- Iloko: “Departamento ti Chocó”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Chocó”
- Italian: “Choco”
- Italian: “Chocó”
- Italian: “Dipartimento del Chocó”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Chocó”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Chocó”
- Japanese: “チョコー県”
- Japanese: “チョコ県”
- Kannada: “ಚೊಕೊ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “초코주”
- Ladino: “Chocó”
- Latvian: “Čoko departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Čioko departamentas”
- Lithuanian: “Čioko”
- Lithuanian: “Čoko departamentas”
- Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Chocó”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Chocó”
- Marathi: “चोको विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chocó”
- Northern Frisian: “Chocó (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Chocó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Choco”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chocó”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chocó-departementet”
- Norwegian: “Chocó”
- Ossetian: “Чоко (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Чоко”
- Persian: “بخش چوکو”
- Persian: “شهرستان چوکو”
- Polish: “Choco”
- Polish: “Chocó”
- Portuguese: “Chocó”
- Quechua: “Chocó suyu”
- Russian: “Чоко”
- Samogitian: “Čiuoka departaments”
- Scots: “Chocó Depairtment”
- Scots: “Chocó”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chocó”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Chocó”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chocó (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chocó”
- Sinhala: “චෝකෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
- Sinhala: “චෝකෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Spanish: “Choco”
- Spanish: “Chocó”
- Spanish: “Chocoanos”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Choco”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Chocó”
- Spanish: “Departamento del Choco”
- Spanish: “Departamento del Chocó”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵜⵛⵓⴽⵓ”
- Swedish: “Choco”
- Swedish: “Chocó”
- Tagalog: “Chocó”
- Tamil: “சாகோ துறை”
- Tatar: “Чоко департаменты”
- Telugu: “చోకో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “చోకో విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโชโก”
- Turkish: “Choco”
- Turkish: “Chocó”
- Ukrainian: “Чоко”
- Urdu: “چوکو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “چوکو محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Chocó”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chocó”
- Wayuu: “Chokoo”
- Western Armenian: “Չոքոյի վարչակազմ”
- Western Panjabi: “چوکو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “乔科省”
- Yoruba: “Chocó Department”
- “Čiuoka departaments”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chocó”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.