Arboletes is a town and municipality in the subregion of Urabá in Antioquia Department, Colombia.
The municipality is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the north, the department of Córdoba to the north and east, the municipality of San Pedro de Urabá to the south and west, and the municipalities of Turbo and Necoclí. The town is 502 km from the city of Medellín, capital of the department of Antioquia. The municipality covers an area of 710 km².
Arboletes has 8 rural townships (corregimientos): El Carmelo, La Trinidad, Naranjitas, El Guadual, La Candelaria, Buenos Aires, Las Platas and Pajillal.
History
Arboletes is a municipality of the department of Antioquia.
The town of Arboletes was founded in 1920 and the municipality of Arboletes was established in August 1958.
Mud volcano Arboletes has a mud volcano in the Santa Fe de la Plata corregimiento, which erupted in 2006 and 2010.
Climate Arboletes has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) with moderate to little rainfall from December to March and heavy rainfall from April to November.
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