Suárez
Suárez is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia. In October 2007 a gold mine near the town collapsed, killing at least 24 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cronista, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 19,700 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Cauca
- Also known as: “Suarez” and “Suárez, Cauca”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salvajina Dam.
Salvajina Dam
Dam
Photo: Manuel Alejandro, CC BY 2.0.
The Salvajina Dam and hydroelectric plant are located in the Cauca River, corregimiento Buenos Aires, municipality Suarez, department Cauca in the southwest of Colombia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires
Town
Buenos Aires is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia. Founded in by Vasco de Guzmán and Alonso de Fuenmayor in 1551, the municipality covers an area 520 km2 and has a population of 21,300. Buenos Aires is situated 9 km northeast of Suárez.
Suárez
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Suárez, Cauca, Pacifica, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.95435° or 2° 57′ 16″ northLongitude
-76.69488° or 76° 41′ 42″ westPopulation
19,700Elevation
1,075 metres (3,527 feet)Open location code
67J5X834+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 430200853OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3667773Wikidata ID
Q2203425
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Suárez” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Suárez”
- Azerbaijani: “Suares”
- Catalan: “Suárez”
- Cebuano: “Suárez”
- Chinese: “Suárez”
- Chinese: “蘇亞雷斯”
- Czech: “Suárez, Cauca”
- Czech: “Suárez”
- Danish: “Suárez”
- Dutch: “Suárez”
- French: “Suárez”
- Galician: “Suárez, Cauca”
- Galician: “Suárez”
- Georgian: “სუარესი (კაუკა)”
- Georgian: “სუარესი”
- German: “Suárez, Cauca”
- German: “Suárez”
- Irish: “Suárez”
- Italian: “Suárez”
- Kotava: “Suárez (Cauca)”
- Kotava: “Suárez”
- Malay: “Suarez, Cauca”
- Malay: “Suarez”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Suárez”
- Persian: “سوآرز (کائوکا)”
- Persian: “سوآرز”
- Polish: “Suárez, Cauca”
- Polish: “Suárez”
- Portuguese: “Suárez”
- Russian: “Суарес”
- Scots: “Suárez, Cauca”
- Scots: “Suárez”
- Spanish: “Suarez”
- Spanish: “Suárez”
- Swedish: “Suárez”
- Tagalog: “Suarez, Cauca”
- Tagalog: “Suarez”
- Turkish: “Suarez (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Suárez (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Suarez belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Suárez belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Suárez”
- Vietnamese: “Suárez, Cauca”
- Vietnamese: “Suárez”
- Waray (Philippines): “Suarez, Cauca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Suarez”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hospital de Suarez and Iglesia.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Suárez”. Photo: Cronista, CC BY-SA 3.0.