Silvia
Silvia 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.- Town with about 37,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 2,800 metres (9,190 feet)
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Cauca
- Also known as“La Suiza de américa”“Silvia, Cauca”
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Latitude
2.6115° or 2° 36′ 42″ north
Longitude
-76.3784° or 76° 22′ 42″ west
Open location code
67J5JJ6C+JJ
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Silvia” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Silvia (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Silvia”
- Breton: “Silvia (kumun)”
- Breton: “Silvia”
- Cebuano: “Silvia”
- Chinese: “西爾維亞”
- Dutch: “Silvia”
- French: “Silvia”
- Galician: “Silvia, Cauca”
- Galician: “Silvia”
- Georgian: “სილვია (კაუკა)”
- Georgian: “სილვია”
- German: “Municipio Silvia”
- German: “Silvia”
- Irish: “Silvia”
- Italian: “Silvia”
- Kotava: “Silvia”
- Malay: “Silvia, Cauca”
- Malay: “Silvia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Silvia”
- Persian: “سیلویا”
- Polish: “Silvia”
- Portuguese: “Silvia”
- Russian: “Сильвия”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Silvia”
- Spanish: “Silvia”
- Swedish: “Silvia”
- Tagalog: “Silvia, Cauca”
- Tagalog: “Silvia”
- Turkish: “Silvia (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Silvia belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Silvia”
- Ukrainian: “Сільвія (Колумбія)”
- Ukrainian: “Сільвія”
- Urdu: “سیلویا، کاؤکا”
- Vietnamese: “Silvia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silvia, Cauca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silvia”
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