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Capital city of Choco Department, Colombia
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Quibdó is in the Choco Department of Colombia.
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A curtain type waterfall where you can swim and splash around with all the other people visiting.
Watch the locals bring in their catch or goods to sell, sharpen their machetes, etc. Also you can take a boat ride and almost feel like you are in the Amazon given the similar rainforest type of topography, or watch a riverine sunset.
Quibdó's own obligatory church, a basic cathedral next to the malecon that is kind of moody like the frequent cloudy skies around here. But wow, it has got some apse.
A plaza and meeting area where you can kind of wonder if you are really in South America or in Africa with all the shanties everywhere.
A major festival for the town something like Carnival that takes place from the end of September thru early October, honoring St Francis, patron saint of Quibdó, with lots of African music, color, and dancing.
This place is a little expensive but it is a chance to eat next to a jungle river where you might be able to throw grains of rice to the piranhas or whatever is in the waters of the Atrato below, besides the 60 tons of mercury that gets dumped in there every year for mining extraction purposes.
Nice and clean, wifi, a/c, can purchase beer from booth in front.
Has wifi, a/c.
Can be reached by car via Hwy 60 from Medellin, crossing the cordillera. It's about a 6.5 hour ride. Also, the city's
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