Caicedonia | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Pushpin Map: | Colombia |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Colombia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Colombia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Valle del Cauca Department |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | August 3, 1910 |
Area Total Km2: | 167 |
Area Urban Km2: | 2.84 |
Population As Of: | 2018 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 28825 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 23840 |
Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
Blank1 Name: | Climate |
Blank1 Info: | Af |
Coordinates: | 4.3333°N -125°W |
Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Caicedonia (pronounced as /es/) is a town and municipality located in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, situated about 172 km from the capital Cali. Founded in 1910 by Daniel Gutierrez, Juan Bautista Angely and a group of settlers from Antioquia, Caldas, and Tolima, it was named after Lisandro Caicedo and became a municipality in 1923. Mostly mountainous, its economy is based on agriculture and commerce, its main exports are corn, coffee, sugarcane and bananas. Given its location on the border with the Quindío Department, only 35 km from that department's capital, Armenia, Caicedonia belongs ethnographically and culturally to the Paisa region.