Popayán

Popayán is the capital of the department of . It is located in the Pubenza Valley in southwestern Colombia between the and .
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  • Type: City with 318,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Colombian department of Cauca
  • Also known as: Popayan

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guillermo León Valencia Airport.

Aerodrome
is an serving Popayán, the capital city of the in . It took the name of former President of Colombia Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz.

Popayán

Latitude
2.4422° or 2° 26′ 32″ north
Longitude
-76.6072° or 76° 36′ 26″ west
Population
318,000
Elevation
1,760 metres (5,774 feet)
IATA airport code
PPN
Open location code
67J5C9RV+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299736407
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3671916
Wiki­data ID
Q335135
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Popayán” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بوبايان
  • Asturian: Popayán (Colombia)
  • Asturian: Popayán
  • Azerbaijani: Popayan
  • Basque: Popayán
  • Belarusian: Папаян
  • Bengali: পোপায়ান
  • Breton: Popayán
  • Bulgarian: Попаян
  • Catalan: Popayán
  • Cebuano: Popayán
  • Chinese: 波帕扬
  • Chinese: 波帕揚
  • Czech: Popayán
  • Danish: Popayán
  • Dutch: Popayan
  • Dutch: Popayán
  • Esperanto: Popajano
  • Esperanto: Popayán
  • Finnish: Popayán
  • French: Popayan
  • French: Popayán
  • Galician: Popayán
  • German: Popayan
  • German: Popayán
  • Greek: Ποπαγιάν
  • Gujarati: પોપાયાન
  • Hebrew: פופאיאן
  • Hindi: पॉपीयन
  • Hungarian: Popayán
  • Indonesian: Popayán
  • Irish: Popayán
  • Italian: Popayan
  • Italian: Popayán
  • Japanese: ポパジャン
  • Japanese: ポパヤン
  • Kannada: ಪೋಪಯಾನ್
  • Korean: 포파얀
  • Kotava: Popayán
  • Latvian: Popajana
  • Lithuanian: Popajanas
  • Malagasy: Popayán
  • Malay: Popayan
  • Malay: Popayán
  • Maltese: Popayán
  • Marathi: पॉपयान
  • Northern Frisian: Popayán (Steed)
  • Northern Frisian: Popayán
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Popayán
  • Norwegian: Popayán
  • Ossetian: Попаян (сахар)
  • Ossetian: Попаян
  • Persian: پوپایان
  • Polish: Popayan
  • Polish: Popayán
  • Portuguese: Popayan
  • Portuguese: Popayán
  • Quechua: Popayán
  • Romanian: Popayán
  • Russian: Попайан
  • Russian: Попайян
  • Russian: Попаян
  • Scottish Gaelic: Popayán
  • Serbian: Попајан
  • Serbo-Croatian: Popayán
  • Silesian: Popayán
  • Sinhala: පොපයාන්, කොලොම්බියාව
  • Sinhala: පොපයාන්
  • Slovenian: Popayan
  • Slovenian: Popayán
  • Spanish: La Ciudad Blanca
  • Spanish: Payanes
  • Spanish: Payanesas
  • Spanish: Payaneses
  • Spanish: Popayan
  • Spanish: Popayán
  • Swedish: Popayan
  • Swedish: Popayán
  • Tagalog: Popayán
  • Tamil: போப்பையன்
  • Tatar: Попаян
  • Telugu: పొపాయన్
  • Thai: โปปายัน
  • Turkish: Popayan (belediye)
  • Turkish: Popayán (belediye)
  • Turkish: Popayan belediyesi
  • Turkish: Popayán belediyesi
  • Turkish: Popayán
  • Ukrainian: Попаян
  • Urdu: پوپایان
  • Venetian: Popayán
  • Vietnamese: Popayán
  • Volapük: Popayán
  • Waray (Philippines): Popayán
  • Welsh: Popayán
  • Western Panjabi: پوپایان
  • Wu Chinese: 波帕扬
  • Popayán

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