Yondó

Also known as Yondo

Yondó is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. It is part of the Magdalena Medio Antioquia sub-region.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Yondó
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality and town
Settlement.image_skyline: Puente-Rio Magdalena.jpg
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Yondó (Antioquia).svg
Settlement.image_seal: Escudo de Yondó.jpg
Settlement.image_map: Colombia - Antioquia - Yondó.svg
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.map_caption: Location of the municipality and town of Yondó in the Antioquia Department of Colombia
Settlement.pushpin_map: Colombia
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Colombia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Colombia
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Department
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Antioquia Department
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Subregion
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Magdalena Medio
Settlement.population_as_of: Census 2018

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Wikidata facts

Area: 1881
Elevation: 34
Official website: yondo-antioquia.gov.co/sitio.shtml
Image: Puente-Rio Magdalena.jpg

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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.