Piendamó is a municipality in the
department of
Cauca in southwestern
Colombia
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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
encomienda
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of the
conquistadors
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Sebastian de Belalcázar
Sebastian may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Sebastian (name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name
* Saint Sebastian, a Christian saint martyred in the 3rd century
* Sebastian of Portugal (1554–1578 ...
,
Francisco Arévalo,
Pedro Matta 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 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 Magangué in Bolívar Department, an ...
at an altitude of above mean sea level. It borders
Silvia
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in the east,
Morales
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* Alfredo Morales (born 1990), American footballer
* Alvaro Morales (disambiguation), several people
* Amado Morales (born 1947), Puerto Rican javelin thrower
* Bartolomé Mo ...
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
Climate
References
Municipalities of Cauca Department
Populated places established in 1525
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