Cereté is a town and municipality located in the Córdoba Department, northern Colombia.

Cereté is one of the oldest administrative divisions in the Sinú Region, founded in 1721 by Spanish Francisco Velásquez and Cristóbal Jiménez de León.

In 1731 the curate of Cereté-Mocarí was given to jesuits who were in the process of evangelizing local indigenous peoples.

The town of Cereté is located some 18 km from the Cordoba Department capital Montería.

The economy of Cereté is based primarily in cattle raising with some 270 km2 used and agriculture with extensive cultivations of cotton (colloquially known as the "white gold") and sorghum covering an area of 80 km2.