CIENAGA

in full San Juan De Cinaga, city, Caribbean port, Magdalena departamento, northern Colombia, at the foothills of the Santa Marta Mountains. First called Aldea Grande (Large Village) by Fernandez Enciso in 1518, it was renamed for the nearby Great Swamp (Cinaga Grande) of Santa Marta, a Caribbean inlet in the alluvial lowlands of the lower Ro Magdalena, in whose waters a Spanish fleet was destroyed in 1820. Economic activities include shipping, fishing, marble quarrying, and agriculture (coffee, tobacco, sugarcane, African palms, bananas, cacao, and cotton). Pop. (1985) 56,860.