Arboletes
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 : El Carmelo, La Trinidad, Naranjitas, El Guadual, La Candelaria, Buenos Aires, Las Platas and Pajillal.
Etymology
The name "Arboletes" means "land of trees", though this is purely historical. Almost all forests in the area were cleared for a thriving cattle industry, an activity on which the municipality depends. However, there are wilderness areas in the municipality, formed by the rain forests that gave rise to the name of the municipality.History
Arboletes is now a municipality of the department of Antioquia, born of a land dispute between that department and its neighboring department of Córdoba.The town of Arboletes was founded in 1920 by José Torres Vargas y José María Reales, and was a township of the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia. The municipality of Arboletes was established in August 1958.