Empresas Municipales de Cali (informally: Emcali) is a state-owned company providing

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Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city span ...

, Colombia. In 2006 it had an income of 1.5 billion

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s. The General Manager is Fulvio Leonardo Soto.

History

On August 13, 1931, the Municipal Council of Santiago de Cali signed the Public Deed that established the Municipal Companies to offer water supply services, organization of market squares, slaughterhouse and collection of some taxes (shows). Management was delegated to an Administrative Board whose members would be elected every two years, among whom were representatives of the national banks that were creditors of the Municipality, which would manage the company for twelve years.

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