Nariño

Nariño is a department of named after independence leader Antonio Nariño. Its capital is Pasto. It is in the west of the country, bordering and the Pacific Ocean.
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a protected natural area in the Nariño province of southwestern . The park protects an area of paramo, a transitional ecosystem in the mountains between the treeline and the snowline.

Nariño

Latitude of center
1.5842° or 1° 35′ 3″ north
Longitude of center
-77.8586° or 77° 51′ 31″ west
Population
1,780,000
Elevation
496 metres (1,627 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306394524
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3674021
Wiki­data ID
Q230217
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Nariño” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nariño (departement)”
  • Afrikaans: “Nariño”
  • Amharic: “ናሪኞ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة نارينيو”
  • Armenian: “Նարինյո”
  • Asturian: “departamentu de Nariño”
  • Asturian: “Nariño”
  • Azerbaijani: “Narino”
  • Azerbaijani: “Narinyo”
  • Basque: “Nariño”
  • Belarusian: “Нарынья”
  • Bengali: “নারিনো বিভাগ”
  • Bengali: “নারিনো”
  • Breton: “Nariño”
  • Bulgarian: “Нарино”
  • Bulgarian: “Нариньо”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Nariño”
  • Catalan: “Nariño”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Nariño”
  • Chinese: “Nariño”
  • Chinese: “納里尼奧”
  • Chinese: “納里尼奧省”
  • Chinese: “纳里尼奥省”
  • Croatian: “Nariño”
  • Czech: “Nariño”
  • Danish: “Narino Department”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Narinyo”
  • Dutch: “Nariño”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Nariño”
  • Esperanto: “Narino”
  • Estonian: “Narino departemang”
  • Estonian: “Nariño departemang”
  • Finnish: “Nariño”
  • French: “Narino”
  • French: “Nariño”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Nariño”
  • Galician: “Nariño”
  • Georgian: “ნარინიოს დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento de Nariño”
  • German: “Narino”
  • German: “Nariño”
  • Greek: “Ναρίνο”
  • Gujarati: “નરીનો વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Narino”
  • Hebrew: “נריניו”
  • Hindi: “नारिनो विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Nariño megye”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Nariño”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Nariño”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Nariño”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Nariño”
  • Japanese: “ナリーニョ県”
  • Javanese: “Narino”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯಾರಿನೋ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Наринто”
  • Kirghiz: “Нарино”
  • Korean: “나리뇨”
  • Korean: “나리뇨주”
  • Kotava: “KolombiaNariñoWinka”
  • Ladino: “Nariño”
  • Latvian: “Narinjo departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Narinjas”
  • Lithuanian: “Narinjo departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Нарињо”
  • Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Nariño”
  • Malay: “Narino”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Nariño”
  • Marathi: “नरेन विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nariño”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nariño (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nariño”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Narino”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nariño”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nariño-departementet”
  • Norwegian: “Nariño”
  • Oromo: “Narino”
  • Ossetian: “Нариньо”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਰਿਨੋ”
  • Persian: “بخش نارینیو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان نارینیو”
  • Persian: “نارینو”
  • Polish: “Narino”
  • Polish: “Nariño”
  • Portuguese: “Narinho”
  • Portuguese: “Narino”
  • Portuguese: “Nariño”
  • Pushto: “ناریانو”
  • Quechua: “Nariño suyu”
  • Quechua: “Nariñu suyu”
  • Romanian: “Narino”
  • Romanian: “Nariño”
  • Russian: “Нариньо”
  • Samogitian: “Narėnja departaments”
  • Scots: “Nariño Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Nariño”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nariño”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Nariño”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nariño”
  • Sinhala: “නරිනෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “නරිනෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Somali: “Narino”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Narino”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Nariño”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Nariño”
  • Spanish: “Narino”
  • Spanish: “Nariño”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵏⴰⵔⵉⵏⵢⵓ”
  • Swahili: “Narino”
  • Swedish: “Narino”
  • Swedish: “Nariño”
  • Tagalog: “Nariño”
  • Tajik: “Нарино”
  • Tamil: “நரினோ துறை”
  • Tatar: “Нарино”
  • Telugu: “నారినో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “నారినో విభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดนาริญโญ”
  • Turkish: “Narino”
  • Turkish: “Nariño”
  • Ukrainian: “Департамент Наріньйо”
  • Ukrainian: “Нариньйо”
  • Urdu: “نارینو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “نارینو محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Nariño (Antioquia)”
  • Uzbek: “Narino”
  • Uzbek: “Nariño”
  • Vietnamese: “Nariño”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nariño”
  • Wayuu: “Nariiña”
  • Western Armenian: “Նարինոյի վարչակազմ”
  • Western Panjabi: “نارینو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “纳里尼奥省”
  • Yoruba: “Nariño Department”
  • “Narėnja departaments”
  • “Nariño”

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