Atlántico Department

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Department of Atlantico
Departamento del Atlántico

Deparment of Colombia


Flag of the Department of Atlantico	Coat of arms of the Department of Atlantico

Motto: Compromiso para una vida digna
(Spanish: Commitment for a worthy life)

Anthem: Himno del atlántico

The Department of Atlántico shown in red

Established

1910

Region

Caribbean Region

Capital

Barranquilla

Number of Municipalities

Governor
- Governor's Political Party

Carlos Rodado Noriega
Colombian Liberal Party

Area
Total
- Land
- Water (% of total)

Ranked 30
3,388 km²
km²
km² (%)

Population
- Total (2005)
- Density

Ranked 5
2,112,128 ^[1]
614.23/km²

ISO_Code

CO-ATL

Goverment's Website:
www.atlantico.gov.co

Atlantico (Spanish: Atlántico) is a department of Colombia. Its capital is Barranquilla.

It is the third smallest of the country's departments, after San Andrés y Providencia and Quindío, with an extension of 3,388 km² (1,308 sq mi). It has a population of 2,272,170, which makes it one of the most densely populated departments, with 670.65 inhabitants per km² (1737.1 inh./sq mi).

The department of Atlántico is located in northern Colombia by the Caribbean sea to its north, the Bolivar Department and to the west with the Magdalena Department, separated by the Magdalena River.

[edit] Municipalities

[edit] Governors

Order	Name	Term
1	General Diego A De Castro	1905 - 1906
2	Alberto Osorio	1906 - 1907
3	José Francisco Insignares	1907 - 1908
4	Daniel Carbonell	1909 - 1910
5	Anastacio Del Río	1910 - 1911
6	General Rafael María Palacio	1913 - 1913
7	Pablo J. Bustillo	1913 - 1914
8	Teodosio Goenaga	1914 - 1915
9	Federico Castro Rodríguez	1918
10	General Gabriel Martínez Aparicio	1919 - 1922
11	General Eparquio González	1922 - 1928
12	José Ulises Osorio	1928 - 1930
13	Alberto Pumarejo	1930 - 1931
14	Juan B. Fernández	1931 - 1932
15	Juan Pablo Manotas	1932 - 1934
16	Nicolás Llinás Vega	1934 - 1935
17	José María Blanco Núñez	1935 - 1936
18	Rafael Blanco De La Rosa	1936 - 1938
19	Juan Antonio Donado	1938 - 1940
20	Joaquín Ramón Lafaurie	1940 - 1942
21	Alejo Solano Manotas	1948 - 1949
22	Rafael Gerlein Y Villate	1949
23	Alfredo Carbonell	1949 - 1950
24	T. Quintero De Fex	1950 - 1951
25	Eduardo Carbonell	1951 - 1952
26	Próspero Carbonell	1952 - 1953
27	General Marco A. Villamizar	1953 - 1954
28	Coronel Jacinto E. Márquez	1954 - 1956
29	Capitan Julio E. Cesar Canal	1956 - 1957
30	Fernando J. Restrepo	1957
31	Néstor Madrid Malo	1957 - 1958
32	Alcides De La Espriella	1958 - 1959
33	Eduardo Martínez Gómez	1961 - 1962
34	José Victor Dugand R.	1962 - 1963
35	Francisco Posada De La Peña	1963 - 1965
36	Ernesto Mccausland	1965 - 1966
37	Eduardo Marino	1969 - 1970
38	Eduardo González Martínez	1970
39	Álvaro Dugand Donado	1970 - 1971
40	Antonio Abello Roca	1971 - 1973
41	José Tcherassi Guzmán	1973 - 1974
42	Roberto Gerlein Echeverría	1974 - 1975
43	Rafael Maldonado De Castro	1975 - 1976
44	Blanca Franco de Castro	1976 - 1978
45	Pedro Martín Leyes Hernandez	1978 - 1981
46	Roberto Pacini Solano	1981 - 1982
47	Abel Francisco Carbonell	1982 - 1984
48	Fuad Ricardo Char Abdala	1984 - 1987
49	Gerardo Certain	1987
50	Edgardo Sales Sales	1987 - 1990
51	Arturo Sarabia Better	1990 - 1991
52	Arnold Gómez Mendoza	1991
53	Gustavo Bell Lemus	1992 - 1994
54	Nelson Polo Hernández	1995 - 1997
55	Rodolfo Espinosa Meola	1998 - 2000
56	Ventura Díaz Mejía	2000 - 2003
57	Alejandro Char	2003 - 2003
58	Carlos Rodado Noriega	2004-2007