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Ipiales
Ipiales is a city and Catholic bishopric in Nariño Department, southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador. It is located at around , with an elevation of about 2950 m. Ipiales is located on the high plateau called "Tuquerres e Ipiales," the city lies at a distance of 82 km from Pasto, the department's capital." Ipiales is known as "la ciudad de las nubes verdes" (the city of the green clouds) because sometimes, especially in the afternoon, greenish clouds appear over the city. One of the area's favorite foods is the guinea pig or cavy (''Cavia porcellus''), called ''kuy'' or ''kuwi''.Kichwa Yachakukkunapa Shimiyuk Kamu (Ministry of Education, Ecuador) The economy of this city is based on border trade between Ecuador and Colombia. Culture and religion The municipality's main attraction is the impressive architecture of the Las Lajas Cathedral, the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ipiales. One of the biggest festivals is called the "Black and White C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Lajas Cathedral
The National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Las Lajas ( es, Basílica Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de las Lajas), commonly called Las Lajas Shrine (''Santuario de Las Lajas''), is a minor basilica, basilica Church (building), church located in southern Colombia. The basilica is situated within the municipality of Ipiales, in the Nariño Department, and is built inside the canyon of the Guáitara River. The present church was built in a Gothic architecture, Gothic style between 1916 and 1949 (33 years). The name ''Laja'' (Stone slab, slab) comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to shale and slate. It is a popular pilgrimage site for Christians from both Colombia and neighboring Ecuador, due to a Marian apparition that is purported to have taken place here in the 18th century. History Overview The inspiration for the church's creation was a purported miraculous event in 1754, when Amerindian Maria Meneses de Quiñones and her deaf-mute daughter Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Ipiales
The Diocese of Ipiales ( la, Ipialensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Southern Colombia. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán. History * Established on 23 September 1964 as Diocese of Ipiales, on territory split off from the Diocese of Pasto Statistics As per 2015, it pastorally served 560,288 Catholics (90.2% of 620,969 total) on 11,089 km2 in 45 parishes and 2 missions with 95 priests (87 diocesan, 8 religious), 2 deacons, 86 lay religious (16 brothers, 70 sisters) and 37 seminarians. Special churches * Its cathedral is the Catedral de San Pedro Mártir, dedicated to the martyr Peter of Verona, in the episcopal see of Ipiales in Nariño Department, near the border with Ecuador * It also has a Minor Basilica : Basílica Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Las Lajas, dedicated to Our Lady, in Ipiales, in the same department. Episcopal Ordinaries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Luis Airport (Colombia)
San Luis Airport ( es, Aeropuerto San Luis) is a high-elevation airport serving Ipiales, a city in the Nariño Department of Colombia. The airport is north of the city. Google Earth 2015 imagery shows a second runway, 08/26, under construction. The Ipiales VOR-DME (Ident: IPI) and San Luis non-directional beacon (Ident: SLI) are located on the field. Airlines and destinations Accidents and incidents *On 22 August 1975, Douglas C-49J HK-1517E of TANA was reported to have been damaged beyond economic repair. See also *Transport in Colombia *List of airports in Colombia This is a list of airports in Colombia, grouped by type and sorted by location. __TOC__ Airports Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines. Notes * The served town of Chía is located in ... References External links OpenStreetMap - San Luis [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulcán
:''"Tulcan" is also an alternative spelling of tulchan'' Tulcán () is the capital of the province of Carchi in Ecuador and the seat of Tulcán Canton. The population of the city of Tulcán was 47,359 in the 2001 census and 53,558 in the 2010 census. Tulcán is known for its hot springs, deep wells, 3-acre topiary garden cemetery, the most elaborate topiary in the New World, created with ''Cupressus sempervirens'' by José Maria Azael Franco in 1936. The city is the highest in Ecuador, at above sea level. Etymology The name is a Spanish derivation of the indigenous peoples' original name ''Hul-Can'', which means "Warrior". History The first known history of the aboriginal occupants of this land begins with the failed Incan conquests. Tulcán sits within the northernmost outpost of the Inca Empire, which according to Spanish chroniclers, was the Rumichaca Bridge, located from Tulcàn and the present-day border with Colombia.Almeida Reyes, Dr. Eduardo (2015), "El Camino del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Highest Large Cities In The World
This list of the highest cities in the world includes only cities with a population greater than 75,000 inhabitants and an average height above sea level over . For other settlements, see List of highest cities in the world or List of highest towns by country. See also *List of cities by elevation The following is a list of the world's major cities (either capitals, more than one million inhabitants or an elevation of over ) by elevation. In addition, the country, continental region, latitude and longitude are shown for all cities liste ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Highest large cities in the world Cities-related lists of superlatives Urban geography Highest Cities, large Geography-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carchi River
The Carchi River is a river of Ecuador. It rises on the slopes of Chiles Volcano, elevation , on the border of Ecuador and Colombia. The river flows eastward across the high plateau of El Angel. The Carchi has a total course of about , forming the border between Colombia and Ecuador for about . It passes between the cities of Tulcan, Ecuador and Ipiales, Colombia and beneath the Rumichaca Bridge, the principal terrestrial link between Colombia and Ecuador. Entering Colombia, the Carchi becomes known as the Guáitara River which is a tributary of the Patía River. The Pasto people lived along the Carchi River in pre-Columbian times. At the northernmost point of the Inca Empire the Pasto were never fully conquered by the Incas. The Carchi was known as the Angasmayo River by the Incas and the early Spanish colonists. A natural stone bridge at Rumichaca was the northernmost outpost of the Inca Empire.Almeida Reyes, Dr. Eduardo (2015), "El Camino del Inca en las Sierra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Colombia
The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia with 1,122 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 constitutional 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 Article 7 http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=48267 the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumichaca Bridge
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Pasto (Colombia)
Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto (; "Saint John of Pasto"), is the capital of the department of Nariño, in southern Colombia. Pasto was founded in 1537 and named after indigenous people of the area. In the 2018 census, the city had approximately 480.000 inhabitants. Pasto is located in the Atriz Valley on the Andes cordillera, at the foot of the Galeras volcano. History The etymology of the word ''Pasto'' can be traced to the indigenous people who inhabited the region at the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, the Pastos. However, the Atriz Valley itself was inhabited by the Quillacingas. In the 2018 Colombian census, 163,873 people self-identified as Pasto, and in the 2010 Ecuadorian census, 1,409 people self-identified as Pasto. Pasto was founded in 1537 by the Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar. In 1539 Lorenzo de Aldana, also a Spanish conquistador, moved the city to its current location, and established it under the name "San Juan de Pasto". A maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombia–Ecuador Border
The Colombia–Ecuador border is an international boundary between the territories of Colombia and Ecuador. It consists of two sections, one terrestrial and one marine, well-defined: The first section is a continuous line of 586 kilometres, running from east to west (from the Güepí River to the mouth of the river Mataje in Ancon de Sardinas Bay in the Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...). It is about 28% of what was once the border between Colombia and Ecuador after the disintegration of the Great Colombia in 1830. The current land border was demarcated permanently by Muñoz-Suárez Vernaza Treaty on 15 July 1916. The second tranche starts at the end point of the land boundary and runs 200 nautical miles offshore, as expressed in the law of the sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, the country's largest city. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi), and has a population of 52 million. Colombia's cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a Spanish colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by enslaved Africans, as well as with those of the various Amerindian civilizations that predate colonization. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köppen Climate Classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936. Later, the climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981) introduced some changes to the classification system, which is thus sometimes called the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system. The Köppen climate classification divides climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on seasonal precipitation and temperature patterns. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (temperate), ''D'' (continental), and ''E'' (polar). Each group and subgroup is represented by a letter. All climates are assigned a main group (the first letter). All climates except for those in the ''E'' group are assigned a seasonal precipitation subgroup (the second letter). For example, ''Af'' indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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