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Valle del Cauca

Valle del Cauca is a department in the region of . The countryside of this region is for the most part considered out of bounds for tourism as of 2010, due to the many landmines and activity by armed groups such as FARC-EP.
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is a city in southwestern , capital of the Valle del Cauca department. It has about 2 million inhabitants and is a significant industrial and commercial center.

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is a city in the Valle del Cauca department of with a population of 432,000. The most developed part of the city lies on Cascajal Island, while much of the city's land is rural with small villages scattered throughout.

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is a city of some 300,000 in Valle del Cauca, known as the "Agricultural Capital of Colombia."…

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, formally Guadalajara de , is a city and municipality in the Valle del Cauca Department of . It is famous for its Basilica del Señor de los Milagros, which houses an image of Christ called el Señor de los Milagros.

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is one of Colombia's newest nature reserves, located on Málaga Bay, near , in Valle del Cauca, .

is tiny town of 500 inhabitants close to Buenaventura in western . The town is in a humid subtropical forest, and therefore the weather is characterized by frequent rain and humid, warm daytime temperatures.

Valle del Cauca

Latitude of center
3.6984° or 3° 41′ 54″ north
Longitude of center
-76.5502° or 76° 33′ 1″ west
Population
4,480,000
Elevation
1,561 metres (5,121 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10050102992
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3666313
Wiki­data ID
Q13990
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Valle del Cauca” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Arabic: “إدارة فالي ديل كاوكا”
  • Armenian: “Վալիե դել Կաուկա”
  • Asturian: “departamentu de Valle del Cauca”
  • Asturian: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Valye Del Kauka”
  • Basque: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Belarusian: “Валье-дэль-Каўка (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Валье-дэль-Каўка”
  • Belarusian: “Вальле-дэль-Каўка”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Валье-дэль-Каўка”
  • Bengali: “ভাল ডেল কাউকা বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Bulgarian: “Вале дел Каука”
  • Catalan: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento del Valle del Cauca”
  • Chinese: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Chinese: “考卡山谷省”
  • Chinese: “考卡河谷省”
  • Czech: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Danish: “Valle del Cauca Department”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Valle del Kauka”
  • Dutch: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Valo de Kaŭko”
  • Esperanto: “Valo de Kaŭko”
  • Finnish: “Valle del Cauca”
  • French: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Valle del Cauca”
  • Galician: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Georgian: “ვალიე-დელ-კაუკის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “CO-VAC”
  • German: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Greek: “διαμέρισμα Βάλιε δελ Κάουκα”
  • Gujarati: “વેલે ડેલ કૌકા વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “ואיה דל קאוקה”
  • Hebrew: “ואייה דל קאוקה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ואיה דל קאוקה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ואייה דל קאוקה”
  • Hindi: “वैले डेल काऊका विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Valle del Cauca megye”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Valle del Cauca”
  • Iloko: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Valle del Cauca”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Valle del Cauca”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Valle del Cauca”
  • Japanese: “バジェ・デル・カウカ県”
  • Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಲೆ ಡೆಲ್ ಕೌಕಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “바예델카우카주”
  • Kotava: “KolombiaValleDelCaucaWinka”
  • Ladino: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Latvian: “Valjes del Kaukas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaukos Slėnio departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Valje del Kaukos departamentas”
  • Low German: “Departamento Valle del Cauca”
  • Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Valle del Cauca”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Valle del Cauca”
  • Marathi: “वॅले डेल काऊका विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Northern Frisian: “Valle del Cauca (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valle del Cauca-departementet”
  • Norwegian: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Valle del Cauca”
  • Ossetian: “Валье-дель-Каукæ”
  • Persian: “بخش بایه دل کائوکا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان بایه دل کائوکا”
  • Polish: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Portuguese: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Quechua: “Valle del Cauca suyu”
  • Romanian: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Russian: “Валье-дель-Каука”
  • Samogitian: “Valje del Kaukas departaments”
  • Scots: “Valle del Cauca Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Sinhala: “වැලි ඩෙල් කාවුකා දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Sinhala: “වැලි ඩෙල් කාවුකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Slovenian: “CO-VAC”
  • Slovenian: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Valle del Cauca”
  • Spanish: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴼⴰⵍⵉ ⴷⵉⵍ ⴽⴰⵡⴽⴰ”
  • Swedish: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Tagalog: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Tamil: “வல்லே டேல் காக்கா துறை”
  • Tatar: “Валье-дель-Каука департаменты”
  • Telugu: “వల్లె డెల్ కాకా”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบาเยเดลเกากา”
  • Turkish: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Ukrainian: “Вальє-дель-Каука”
  • Urdu: “ویے دیل کاؤکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “ویے دیل کاؤکا محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Valle del Cauca departamenti”
  • Vietnamese: “Valle del Cauca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Valle del Cauca”
  • Wayuu: “Wayee jünain Kaau’kaa”
  • Western Armenian: “Վալիէ տել Քաուքա”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویلا دیل کوکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “考卡山谷省”
  • Wu Chinese: “考卡河谷省”
  • Yoruba: “Valle del Cauca Department”
  • “Valje del Kaukas departaments”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Valle del Cauca”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.