Piendamó is a municipality in the

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of Cauca in southwestern

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History

The town of Piendamó was founded by Pedro Antonio Sandoval on April 2, 1525. Piendamó was formerly called Tunía and as such an

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of the conquistadors Sebastian de Belalcázar,

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and Pedro de Velasco. In 1917, the construction of the railway line that would link the city of Cali with the city of Popayán began, approving the layout for the site where Piendamó is today. At the beginning of 1924 the first locomotives arrived in this town and with them a large number of merchants, immigrants and settlers from the department of Valle del Cauca and the coffee region.

Description

The municipality is located in the

Cauca Basin Cauca may refer to: * Cauca Department, an administrative division of Colombia * Valle del Cauca Department, an administrative division of Colombia * Cauca Department (Gran Colombia), former administrative division * Cauca, an extinct Choco langua ...

in the valley of the

Cauca River The Cauca River () is a river in Colombia that lies between the Occidental and Central cordilleras. From its headwaters in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popayán, it joins the Magdalena River near Magangue in Bolivar Department, and th ...

at an altitude of above mean sea level. It borders

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in the east,

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in the west, Caldono in the north and Cajibio in the south.Official website Piendamó
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Named after Piendamó

* Piendamó River *

Piendamó Fault The Piendamó Fault ( es, Falla de Piendamó) is an oblique dextral strike-slip fault in the department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia. The fault is part of the megaregional Romeral Fault System and has a total length of and runs along a vari ...

References

Municipalities of Cauca Department Populated places established in 1525 {{Cauca-geo-stub