Tumaco

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (October 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Tumaco]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Tumaco}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

San Andrés de Tumaco
Municipality and city
Flag Seal
Motto:  Tumaco For Everyone
Location of the municipality (red) of Tumaco in the Nariño Department.
San Andrés de Tumaco
Coordinates: 1°48′24″N 78°45′53″W / 1.80667°N 78.76472°W / 1.80667; -78.76472
Country	Colombia
Department	Nariño Department
Founded	1640
Government
• Mayor	Julio César Rivera
Area
• Municipality and city	3,612 km2 (1,395 sq mi)
• Urban	11.25 km2 (4.34 sq mi)
Elevation	2 m (7 ft)
Population  (2020 est.)[1]
• Municipality and city	257,052
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
• Urban	86,614
• Urban density	7,700/km2 (20,000/sq mi)
Demonym	Tumaquian
Time zone	UTC−5
Area code	57 + 2
Website	tumaco-narino.gov.co (in Spanish)

Tumaco is a port city and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia, by the Pacific Ocean. It is located on the southwestern corner of Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, and experiences a hot tropical climate. Tumaco is inhabited mainly by Afro-Colombians and some indigenous people.

Tumaco is accessible by plane from Pasto, the capital city of Nariño Department, as well from Cali and Bogotá. It can also be reached by land via highway from Pasto and San Lorenzo (Ecuador). Tumaco is known for being the hometown of many great Colombian soccer players, including Willington Ortiz.

Colombian film director Samuel Córdoba released a documentary about the city in 2009. The film, entitled "Tumaco Pacífico",^[2] chronicles the stilt-house area of the city, predominantly populated by Afro-Colombians. Córdoba was inspired by a panoramic photo of the stilt houses he saw in a photography book on Tumaco. The film won first place at the Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de Bordeaux, in France, and was presented at the Festival Internacional de Cine, in Santiago, Chile.

Other places of interest include ecotourism sites and beaches located near the mouth of the Mira River, where the river meets the sea. Also, there are the Playas de Milagros (beaches of Miracles), and Bocananueva y Teran beaches, where visitors can experience the diversity of flora and fauna first-hand.^[3]