El Castillo is a town and municipality in the

Meta Department Meta () is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River, is covered by a grassland plain known ...

, Colombia.

History

The first settlers settled on the banks of the Caño Uruimes, with the passage of time this was elevated to the Category of Police Inspection of the Municipality of San Martín, under the name of Inspection of Urimes. By 1963, the name was changed to La Cal, which was again changed in 1976 when it was created as a municipality with its current name of El Castillo. El Castillo was elevated to municipality by Ordinance No.001 of 19 February 1976.Medellín Becerra, Jorge Alejandro; Fajardo Rivera, Diana. El Castillo. Diccionario de Colombia (2005 edición). p. 335. ISBN 958-04-8561-5

Geography

Limits

The municipality is located in the southwest of the department; in the region known as Alto Ariari *North with the municipalities of El Dorado and Cubarral; *South with the municipalities of Lejanías and

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*West with the municipalities of Cubarral and Lejanías. *East with the municipalities of San Martín and Granada. El Castillo has an average annual rainfall of 3,700 millimetres, and its average temperature is 28 °C.

Hydrography

The municipality is crossed by the Guape River to the west and the

Ariari River The Ariari River is a river of Colombia, located entirely within the Meta Department. Part of the Orinoco River basin, it merges with the Guayabero River to forms the Guaviare River, one of the principle tributaries of the Orinoco. See also *Lis ...

to the east, where they join to the southeast of the municipality. To the northwest is the El Guape Lagoon. The La Cal River crosses the municipality, as do the Dulce, Embarrado, Urimes and Yamanes Rivers.

Economy

Agriculture stands out as the main source of income for the municipality, especially corn, rice, cassava, banana and passion fruit crops, as well as smaller-scale crops of bananas, avocado, guava and some citrus fruits. Livestock occupies the second sector of the municipal economy; both in the production of milk and in the production of meat. The industrial sector is not very developed, its main exponent is a corn dryer that is located within the municipal seat; there are also numerous medium and small raw material transformation companies produced in the region.

References

External links

Official website of the Mayor's Office of El Castillo
Municipalities of Meta Department {{MetaCO-geo-stub