Florida | |
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 |
Area Total Km2: | 401.6 |
Area Urban Km2: | 3.25 |
Population As Of: | 2018 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 53774 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 40195 |
Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 3.3275°N -76.2386°W |
Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Florida (pronounced as /es/) is a town and municipality located in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Its first inhabitants were indigenous peoples, mestizos, afro-Latinos and mulattos. Local rivers are the Fraile, Parraga, and Desbaratado. The main road is la Calle Novena ("Ninth Street").
La Hoya, a pool of water formed by a section of the Fraile River, attracts tourists.[2]
In 2008 FARC requested this municipality together with Pradera as free areas for them to negotiate to exchange 44 hostages they held for guerilla fighters imprisoned by the Colombian government.[3]