URABA

Given the large export capacity in the region (generates more than half the bananas exported from Colombia), for Antioquia 2020, Urabá can become a large trade area, thus contributing to development, not only the Department but also the country.

Knowing how close he is also from Panama, and the great location in the region, we might consider Uraba as one of the most important ports in the country, generating large capital inflows to the Department and employment for their inhabitants.

Sectional Opening: December 1, 1995

Resolution of the Ministry of Education 3250 of 5 December 2000. For which authorizes the establishment of a branch of the University of Antioquia in the municipality of Turbo.

Out of the blue. At the University of Antioquia told him that he got a gift like a glove with its regionalization project. Uraba banana Employers agreed to deliver a 4.6-acre lot to contribute to academic growth in the area.
Regionalization director of the university, John Jairo Arboleda, had they already have a plan for the property: an office where administrative work, research laboratories and new programs will be offered. For Luis Fernando Arango, president of Uniban, the university has increased its presence with more supply and delivery of the consignment meets the need of Uraba of continuing that growth.

On the economic amount of the gift, Arango said he could not calculate it but believes that amounts to several hundred million dollars because it is practically in the urban area of Apartado.
New order With the gift, the U. A. continues with its reorganization in the area, which will present in the three municipalities.

At the headquarters of the institution in Turbo, the first one installed in his proposed regionalization are 897 undergraduate students who have outgrown and by building new road layouts will be reduced. In return the local government gave the land where today it is filled to raise the headquarters Marine Science
It will be a two-story building with classrooms, research laboratories, library, computer rooms and administrative area. The work would be delivered in the second half of next year and will house 18 academic programs offered at the time, as Aquaculture Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Management and Technology in Cultural Ecology and Tourism. Another project is the municipality where you Carepa: On the farm will be built based Tulenapa Ecological Studies.
John Jairo Arboleda reported to be a strategic location: neighbors are the Darien Gap, Chocó, the border with Panama and urban primary forest, perhaps unique in the country.

Now just awaiting the reply of the Ministry of Agriculture with the final award of the farm. More superior offer with the property of Apartado delivered by the banana will also increase the University's academic menu. The intention is to offer programs that are different from those in other locations and between John Jairo Arboleda possibilities mentioned some engineering, but said that it will identify the relevant studies. Groups like the Institute for Regional Studies analyze what are the professions that best suit the conditions of the subregion. It is clear in this case, the aim of diversifying the productive sector.

At that point, for Jairo Zapata, branch director in Urabá, the interesting thing is that undergraduates have a wider range of possibilities for study.
Presence in the region make about 13 institutions such as the Luis Amigo, Unified National Corporation, the Politecnico Jaime Isaza, the Cooperativa de Colombia, the Seine, the Foundation for Advanced Studies and University Unad.
For the amount of people interested in enrollment at the university, Zulma Ester Gels Palace Turbo education secretary, said that the mentality of the community from education is changing. Undergraduates are now more aware of the importance of studying and presented widely.Gel is clear that the quality, but also by the economic conditions of the population, most aspire to quotas at the University of Antioquia.


Few reach university urabaenses although the presence of higher education institutions in Uraba has grown, the access of the population is very poor. Jairo Zapata, director sectional U. A. in Turbo, estimates that 12 percent of graduates entering college.


The U. A. expands into the sea

Marine and biological studies are expected to perform in two venues to be built by the University of Antioquia in Turbo and Carepa.
Two macropoyectos be starting work at the University of Antioquia in the region of Uraba, when you begin construction and operation of the headquarters of Marine Sciences in the municipality of Turbo and headquarters in Carepa Ecological Studies.

The first begun in the first instance, as already made the adjustments of the land and also made the public call to assign the contract for the work, while the second, which is located on the farm Tulenapa donated by Corpoica expects the relevant adaptations to begin biological studies.

It is a strategic area in which we study the implementation of future projects such as the modernization of the port of Uraba.

all the technical suggestions necessary to build a port that can
attend the projected demand and the associated logistics services, providing, this
way, a strategic port that would allow the imports and exports of goods and the
costs of logistics, all these essential, to convert and strengthen our foreign trade to
the highest competitiveness levels in the world.
In the final part, there’s a brief description of projects considered important and
also some of the proposals that were set up by various Antioquenian sectors with
the purpose of obtaining the necessary resources for the proper financing of the
required works.

The start of work in the free zone of Uraba becomes a fact full of hope to the region, as finally announced as one of the mega projects being considered for the area, shows that they may become a reality in the mediate term . Another news that is specific to the subregion arrival of the Swiss company C-Holding Group with a plant to manufacture auto parts, and, possibly, a producer of construction material

Is a subregion in the Colombian Department of Antioquia. The region is made up by 24 municipalities. Most of this region northern portion is part of the Colombian Caribbean Region bordering the Caribbean sea.
Urabá is the coastal region of Antioquia and it is located in the Atlantic Ocean. Once you hear this, it will motivate you to imagine what could be done to enjoy oneself in the Caribbean Sea, exotic landscapes, wide cultural diversity, sun, and beach. In touristic matter, the subregion opens up to new possibilities based on the natural attractiveness of its lands.
In Katía language, Urabá means "The Promised Land". It is Antioquia's way into the sea, it is the most important banana and plantain region of the country and it is a pantry for this tropical fruit of various international markets. It is a subregion that mixes paisa and costeña culture in a space where beauty falls short to define these lands.
Touristic options point to diverse spots: agrotourism, one may visit a banana farms, get to know all the production process and shipping of the fruit, and enjoy the green seas that cover Urabá's plains.
The etnotourisim has an important contribution, the cohabitation of different races which are common in America and as well are present in Urabá. Afro-colombians, whites, Indigenous, mulatos, zambos, and mestizo populate this subregion. It is possible to visit the Cuna and Emberá Katío Indians and use the time to buy true art work done by them and at the same time one may get to know a little bit more about their culture.
The Urabá land has various airports. The most used ones are in Apartadó and in Turbo, but one may travel in a very popular way in Antioquia, by land. Starting off from Medellín, cross the Western Tunnel, travel by Santa Fé de Antioquia and you arrive to Mutatá, Uraba's door and home of the two Indigenoaus reservoir of the Emberá Katío.
Urabá is divided in three zones: one to the south, which limits with the West subregion and its main activities are agriculture and fishing, with Mutatá as a central axis of development; then there is a central zone, the most prosperous, economically speaking, with an epicenter in Apartadó, and banana cultivation is the main economic line; and the north zone, from Turbo up to Arboletes, its main activities are tourism and fishing.


The subregion of Uraba is one of nine in which is divided Antioquia. It occupies an area of 11,664 km2, has a population of 508,802 inhabitants and is composed of eleven municipalities: Arboletes, Necocli Uraba San Juan, San Pedro de Uraba, Apartado, Carepa, Chigorodo, Mutatá, Turbo, Murindó and Vigia del Fuerte. It has a geographical feature of great importance to the department and the country: the Gulf of Uraba, which is located on the Caribbean Sea and covers an area of 1,500 m2. In this subregion dominated fisheries, livestock, agribusiness, timber, agriculture and tourism

You may arrive by land, sea, or air to enjoy the Caribbean Sea, with its exotic scenery and great cultural and natural diversity. Being the most important export region in the country for bananas and plantains