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Piendamó, Cauca
Piendamó is a municipality in the departments of Colombia, department of Cauca Department, Cauca in southwestern Colombia. History The town of Piendamó was founded by Pedro Antonio Sandoval on April 2, 1525. Piendamó was formerly called Tunía and as such an encomienda of the list of conquistadors in Colombia, conquistadors Sebastian de Belalcázar, Francisco Arévalo, Pedro Matta and Pedro de Velasco y Martínez de Revilla, 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 in the valley of the Cauca River at an altitude of above mean sea level. It borders Silvia, Cauca, Silvia in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Colombia
The municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Colombia, Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia, with 1,104 municipality, municipalities (''municipios''). Each one of them is led by a mayor (''alcalde'') elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments. The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the ''Federación Colombiana de Municipios'' (Colombian Federation of Municipalities), which functions as a union under the private law and under the Colombian Constitution of 1991, constitutional Freedom of association, right to free association to defend their common interests. Categories Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |