It is located on the Transversal del Caribe, on the banks of the Palomino River, near the Caribbean Sea coast. Palomino is the borderline between La Guajira and Magdalena. It is 26 km from the municipal capital of Dibulla, 90 km from Riohacha and 72 km from Santa Marta. Its territory has all thermal floors, from sea level to the perpetual snows of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It limits to the north with the Caribbean Sea, to the east with the corregimiento of Rioancho, to the south with Cesar and to the west with Magdalena.