Tolú, also known as Santiago de Tolú, is a small town in Sucre Department, northern Colombia on the Caribbean coast. The municipality has an area of 500km2. It is named after the Tolú, one of the pre-Columbian indigenous people of the North Colombia lowlands.

The municipality of Tolú borders to the North with San Onofre, to the East with Toluviejo, to the South with Coveñas, Palmito and Sincelejo.

Notable people

• Didier Fuentes (b. 2005), MLB pitcher, Atlanta Braves

• Héctor Rojas Herazo (1920–2002), novelist, poet and painter

See also

• Toluene

References

External links

• Gobernacion de Sucre - Tolú

• ToluCaribe.com - Recreación, Historia y Cultura de Tolú.