Carolina del Príncipe is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in the Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n department

Departments of Colombia

Colombia is an unitary republic formed by thirty-two departments and a Capital District . Each department has a Governor and a Department Assembly , elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods...

 of Antioquia

Antioquia Department

Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part of the Andes mountain range...

, found 105 km north of Medellín

Medellín

Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

, with an altitude of 1,807 m above sea level. Carolina del Príncipe is part of the subregion of Northern Antioquia

Northern Antioquia

Northern Antioquia is a subregion in the Colombian Department of Antioquia. The region is made up by 17 municipalities.-Municipalities:* Angostura* Belmira* Briceño* Campamento* Carolina del Príncipe* Don Matías* Entrerríos* Gómez Plata* Guadalupe...

.

Carolina is a small town of well laid-out cobblestone streets, containing many houses with antique hand-made wooden balconies. The municipal total area covers some 118 km², with a mountainous territory corresponding to the central spine of the Andes and bounded by the Concepción or Minavieja

Concepción River

-References:*Atlas of Mexico, 1975 .*The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984.*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993....

, Guadalupe, San Pablo and Tenche rivers. It has a population of 666 inhabitants and its economy is based on animal husbandry (dairy and meat) and the cultivation of maize

Maize

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, sugar cane, rice

Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

, cocoa, and corn

Cereal

Cereals are grasses cultivated for the edible components of their grain , composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran...

. The settlement began to form in 1785, being converted into a parish two years later. The name was chosen in honor of Carlos IV of Spain, then the prince in line to be heir of his father's

Charles III of Spain

Charles III was the King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788. He was the eldest son of Philip V of Spain and his second wife, the Princess Elisabeth Farnese...

throne. It was constituted as a municipality in 1814.