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Cauca

Cauca Department is a department of Southwestern . Located in the southwestern part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west, the to the north, to the northeast, to the east, and to the south.
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is the capital of the department of Cauca. It is located in the Pubenza Valley in southwestern Colombia between the and .

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is in the department of Cauca in . The Archeological Park is famous for its painted underground burial chambers, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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is a small town that is a 1 hour bus ride on curvy roads from Popayan. It features an authentic market full of locals and very few tourists. Clothing, electronics, houseware, freshly butchered meat, fruits, etc. are sold there.

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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.

Cauca

Latitude of center
2.7156° or 2° 42′ 56″ north
Longitude of center
-76.6627° or 76° 39′ 46″ west
Population
1,360,000
Elevation
1,693 metres (5,554 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306394508
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3687029
Wiki­data ID
Q230602
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Cauca” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cauca”
  • Arabic: “إدارة كاوكا”
  • Armenian: “Կաուկա”
  • Asturian: “Cauca”
  • Asturian: “departamentu de Cauca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kauka”
  • Basque: “Cauca”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Каўка”
  • Belarusian: “Каўка, дэпартамент”
  • Belarusian: “Каўка”
  • Bengali: “কাউকা বিভাগ”
  • Bengali: “কাউকা”
  • Breton: “Cauca”
  • Bulgarian: “Каука”
  • Catalan: “Cauca”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Cauca”
  • Catalan: “Departament del Cauca”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento del Cauca”
  • Chinese: “Cauca”
  • Chinese: “考卡”
  • Chinese: “考卡省”
  • Croatian: “Cauca”
  • Czech: “Cauca”
  • Czech: “Departement Cauca”
  • Danish: “Cauca Department”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kauka”
  • Dutch: “Cauca”
  • Esperanto: “Cauca”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Kaŭko”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŭko”
  • Finnish: “Cauca”
  • French: “Cauca”
  • French: “Département de Cauca”
  • Galician: “Cauca, Colombia”
  • Galician: “Cauca”
  • Galician: “Departamento do Cauca”
  • Georgian: “კაუკის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Cauca”
  • German: “CO-CAU”
  • German: “Departamento del Cauca”
  • Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Κάουκα”
  • Greek: “διαμέρισμα Κάουκας”
  • Gujarati: “કોઉકા વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “קאוקה”
  • Hindi: “काऊका विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Cauca megye”
  • Iloko: “Cauca”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Cauca”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Cauca”
  • Italian: “Cauca”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Cauca”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Cauca”
  • Japanese: “カウカ県”
  • Kannada: “ಕೌಕಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “카우카”
  • Korean: “카우카주”
  • Kotava: “KolombiaCaucaWinka”
  • Ladino: “Cauca”
  • Latvian: “Kaukas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaukos departamentas”
  • Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Cauca”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Cauca”
  • Marathi: “काऊचं विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cauca”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cauca (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cauca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cauca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cauca-departementet”
  • Norwegian: “Cauca”
  • Ossetian: “Каукæ”
  • Persian: “بخش کائوکا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کائوکا”
  • Polish: “Cauca”
  • Portuguese: “Cauca”
  • Quechua: “Cauca suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Cauca”
  • Russian: “Каука”
  • Samogitian: “Kaukas departaments”
  • Scots: “Cauca Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Cauca, Colombie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cauca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Cauca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cauca (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cauca”
  • Sinhala: “කවුකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “කවුකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “Cauca”
  • Slovenian: “CO-CAU”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento del Cauca”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Cauca”
  • Spanish: “Cauca”
  • Spanish: “Caucanos”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Cauca”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Cauca”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴽⴰⵡⴽⴰ”
  • Swedish: “Cauca”
  • Swedish: “Cuaca”
  • Tagalog: “Cauca”
  • Tamil: “கவுக்க துறை”
  • Telugu: “కౌకా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “కౌకా విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเกากา”
  • Turkish: “Cauca”
  • Ukrainian: “Каука”
  • Urdu: “کاؤکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “کاؤکا محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Cauca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cauca”
  • Wayuu: “Kaau’kaa”
  • Western Armenian: “Քաուքայի վարչակազմ”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاؤکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “考卡省”
  • Yoruba: “Cauca Department”
  • “Kaukas departaments”

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