Sucre Department

Sucre
Departamento de Sucre

Department

Flag

Coat of arms

Sucre shown in red

Topography of the department

Coordinates: 9°18′N 75°24′W / 9.300°N 75.400°WCoordinates: 9°18′N 75°24′W / 9.300°N 75.400°W

Colombia

August 18, 1966

Largest city

Government

• Governor

Edgar Enrique Martinez Romero (2016-2019)

Area

• Total

10,917 km² (4,215 sq mi)

Area rank

27th

Population (2013)

• Total

834,927

• Rank

21st

• Density

76/km² (200/sq mi)

Website

www.gobersucre.gov.co

Sucre is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The department ranks 27th by area, 10,670 km² (4,120 sq mi) and it has a population of 772,010, ranking 20th of all the 32 departments of Colombia. Sucre is bordered by the Caribbean on the northwest; by Bolívar Department on the east and by Córdoba Department on the west.

Sucre was named in honor of the Independence hero Antonio José de Sucre who was quoted by the founders of this department in reference to Simón Bolívar's death as saying "They have killed my heart", expression said while cruising the territory of the present day Sucre Department.

As of 2009, the Sucre Department has an estimated population of 802,733, of which 234,886 are in the department capital Sincelejo, according to the DANE projections.

Before the Spanish Conquest, the land comprising the department of Sucre was mainly inhabited by two groups of indigenous people — the Zenú and the Turbacos. The Zenú language was perhaps part of the Chibchan language family by the Arhuacos branch. The Turbaco people were part of the Cariban language family and they controlled the area adjacent to the Gulf of Morrosquillo. The Zenú people — by the Finzenú and Panzenú branches — controlled the rest of the territory, which used to be part of a bigger territory along the current department of Córdoba and parts of Bolívar and Antioquia sometimes known as Zenú kingdom or Zenú nation.

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