Colombia
Pacifica
Cauca

Puracé

Puracé is a town and municipality in the , . An 1853 watercolor by Manuel María Paz is an early depiction of four indigenous people in Puracé wearing straw hats and ruanas.
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  • Type: Village with 15,000 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Cauca
  • Also known as: “Puracé, Cauca”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coconuco.

is a small village a curvy hour ride from Popayan whose main attraction is the Aguas Hirviendes hot springs and a few natural pools of cold water.

Puracé

Latitude
2.3811° or 2° 22′ 52″ north
Longitude
-76.4551° or 76° 27′ 18″ west
Population
15,000
Elevation
3,895 metres (12,779 feet)
Open location code
67J59GJV+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 703234998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3671223
Wiki­data ID
Q2317482
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Puracé” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Puracé - Coconuco (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Puracé - Coconuco”
  • Cebuano: “Puracé”
  • Chinese: “Puracé”
  • Chinese: “普拉塞”
  • Dutch: “Puracé”
  • French: “Puracé”
  • Galician: “Puracé-Coconuco”
  • Galician: “Puracé, Cauca”
  • Galician: “Puracé”
  • Georgian: “პურასე (კაუკა)”
  • Georgian: “პურასე”
  • Irish: “Purace”
  • Italian: “Puracé”
  • Kotava: “Puracé-Coconuco”
  • Malay: “Purace, Cauca”
  • Malay: “Purace”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puracé”
  • Persian: “پوراسه (کائوکا)”
  • Persian: “پوراسه”
  • Portuguese: “Puracé”
  • Russian: “Пурасе”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Puracé”
  • Spanish: “Purace - Coconuco”
  • Spanish: “Puracé - Coconuco”
  • Spanish: “Puracé-Coconuco”
  • Spanish: “Puracé”
  • Swedish: “Puracé”
  • Tagalog: “Purace, Cauca”
  • Tagalog: “Purace”
  • Turkish: “Purace (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Purace belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Purace”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purace, Cauca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purace”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hospital de Purace and Cascada Purace.

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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 “Puracé”. Photo: Dieram, CC BY-SA 4.0.