The Sickle of Minamá (Spanish: ''Hoz de Minamá'') is a deep depression located in southwestern

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, in the territories of the Nariño and Cauca Departments, created by the Patía River at its outlet to the Pacific Ocean, and is part of the upper valley Patía. The

Sickle A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock, ei ...

of Minamá has a height of 380–400 meters above sea level, and is over 1 km deep and 60 km long, cutting from side to side of the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia.

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Valleys of Colombia Geography of Nariño Department Geography of Cauca Department {{Colombia-stub