Popayán
Popayán is the capital of the Colombian department of Cauca. It is located in the Pubenza Valley in southwestern Colombia between the Western Mountain Range and Central Mountain Range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Guillermo León Valencia Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Car710, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guillermo León Valencia Airport is an airport serving Popayán, the capital city of the Cauca Department in Colombia. It took the name of former President of Colombia Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz.
Popayán
- Categories: municipality of Colombia, city in Colombia, big city, and locality
- Location: Cauca, Pacifica, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.4422° or 2° 26′ 32″ northLongitude
-76.6072° or 76° 36′ 26″ westPopulation
318,000Elevation
1,760 metres (5,774 feet)IATA airport code
PPNOpen location code
67J5C9RV+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 299736407OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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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