Popayán Province was first a Spanish jurisdiction under the

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and the

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, and after the independence one of the provinces of the

Cauca Department (Gran Colombia) Cauca Department was one of the departments of Gran Colombia. It was divided into 4 provinces: * Popayán Province * Buenaventura Province Buenaventura Province was one of the provinces of Gran Colombia. It belonged to the Cauca Department ...

, later becoming the

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. Watercolors of Popayán Province painted in 1853 by

Manuel María Paz Manuel María Paz Delgado (July 6, 1820, Almaguer, Cauca, Colombia - September 16, 1902 Bogotá) was a Colombian cartographer, military officer, artist and watercolorist. Biography Manuel María Paz Delgado was born June 6, 1820 in the town o ...

show indigenous peoples wearing the

ruana A ruana (possibly from Spanish ''ruana'' "ragged" or Quechua ''ruana'' "textile") is a poncho-style outer garment native to the Colombian and Venezuelan Andes. In Colombia, the ruana is the characteristic and traditional garment of the department o ...

in the village of Pancitará (or Pansitará), and women called ''Llapangas'' known for "embroidery, dressmaking, or shop work," who wore embroidered cotton blouses, flannel skirts, and "neat, well-groomed bare feet." File:Popayán in New Granada (1810).svg File:ProvinciaPopayan.jpg

References

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