Tolú

{{Short description|Town in Sucre, Colombia}}

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Tolú is a small town in Sucre Department, northern Colombia on the Caribbean coast. The municipality has an area of 500 km². It is named after the Tolú, one the pre-Columbian indigenous people of the North Colombia lowlands.{{citation|title=Handbook of South American Indians|volume=4|pages=329–338|year=1948|editor=Julian H. Steward|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}

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