Yondó
Yondó | |
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Municipality and town | |
Location of the municipality and town of Yondó in the Antioquia Department of Colombia | |
| Coordinates: 7°00′28″N 73°54′51″W / 7.00778°N 73.91417°W | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Department | Antioquia Department |
| Subregion | Magdalena Medio |
| Population (Census 2018) | |
• Total | 17,597 |
| Time zone | UTC-05:00 (Colombia Standard Time) |
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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.