Fuerte Island (Isla Fuerte) is a small coral island[1] in the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Colombia, Córdoba department, located south of the Gulf of Morrosquillo.
As of 2020, there were approximately 2,000 people permanently living on Fuerte Island including 570 families.
[4] Despite only being 11 km away from San Bernardo del Viento, in the Córdoba Department, Fuerte Island is a corregimiento of Cartagena.
On the island, there are three individual trees which are locally renowned due to their age and size.
The first is the Arbol que camina, which is a Ficus benghalensis tree that has grown multiple aerial roots that give it a walking appearance.