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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 546 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAUCA , a large See also:

coast See also:department of See also:Colombia, See also:South • See also:America, lying between the departments of See also:Bolivar, Antioquia, Caldas and Tolima on the E., and the Pacific Ocean and See also:Panama on the W,, and extending from the Caribbean See also:Sea S. to the department of Narino. Pop. (1905, estimate) 400,000; See also:area 26,930 sq. m. Although Cauca was deprived of extensive territories on the upper Caqueta and Putumayo, and of a large area bordering on See also:Ecuador in the territorial redistribution of 1905, it remained the largest department of the See also:republic. The Western See also:Cordillera, traversing nearly its whole length from south to See also:north, and the Central Cordillera, forming a See also:part of its eastern frontier, give a very mountainous See also:character to the region. It includes, besides, the fertile and healthful valley of the upper Cauca, the hot, See also:low valley of the Atrato, and a See also:long coastal See also:plain on the Pacific. The region is See also:rich in mines and valuable forests, but its inhabitants have made very little progress in See also:agriculture because there are not adequate transportation facilities. The See also:capital of the department is See also:Popayan at its See also:southern extremity, with an estimated See also:population in 1905 of 1o,000, other important towns are See also:Cali (16,000), Buga, See also:Cartago and See also:Buenaventura.

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