Huila ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈwila] ) is one of the departments of Colombia . It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva .
8-587: Olaya Herrera is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department , Colombia . Named after the former President of Colombia Enrique Olaya Herrera . Its municipal seat is known as Bocas de Satinga . Olaya Herrera has a tropical rainforest climate ( Köppen Af ) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round. This Department of Nariño location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nari%C3%B1o Department Nariño ( Spanish pronunciation: [naˈɾiɲo] )
16-575: A population of 1,122,622 inhabitants in 2020, of which 679,667 (60.54%) live in urban areas and 442,955 (39.46%) in the rest of the Huilense territory. This amounts to 2.5% of the total Colombian population. The majority of it is settled in the Magdalena valley , the main urban centers being Neiva and Garzón , due to the possibilities offered by commercial-type agricultural economy, oil production, access to basic public services and roads connected to
24-604: Is a department of Colombia named after independence leader Antonio Nariño . Its capital is Pasto . It is in the west of the country, bordering Ecuador and the Pacific Ocean . Nariño has a diverse geography and varied climate according to altitude: hot in the plains of the Pacific and cold in the mountains, where most of the population resides, a situation that is repeated in a north-south direction. Other important cities include Tumaco and Ipiales . The territory
32-592: The central road axis along the Magdalena . The rest of the population is located on the coffee belt, standing out Pitalito and La Plata ; the North Subregion is undergoing a decrease in its rural population, mainly attributable to alterations of agricultural and oil activities on the landscape. The average population density in the department is 59.88 inhabitants / km , with the highest densities in Neiva (223.72), Pitalito (200.1) and Garzón (162.45), and with
40-851: The country. According to the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC), Huila's surface area is 19,890 km², which is about 1.74% of the total surface area of Colombia. The south of the department is located in the Colombian Massif . The Cordillera Oriental branches off from the Colombia Massif here. This is caused by the rise of the Magdalena River (also called Yuma River), Colombia's longest river and its largest basin. The Magdalena River has two large dams: Betania and El Quimbo . Colombia's third highest peak, Nevado del Huila volcano,
48-401: The lowest in the municipalities of Colombia and Villavieja (7.83 and 10.91 respectively). According to DANE , the racial composition of Huila is as follows: 98.43% recognize themselves as Whites and Mestizos , while only 1.57% as an ethnic population ( Amerindians and Afro / Mulattos ). This makes it one of departments with the highest percentage of non-ethnic affiliated population in
56-1400: The mountainous part of the department, commissioned by Sebastián de Belalcázar in 1535, who then toured the territory in 1536 and reached Popayán and remained for some time before leaving for Spain. [REDACTED] Amazonas [REDACTED] Antioquia [REDACTED] Arauca [REDACTED] Atlántico [REDACTED] Bolívar [REDACTED] Boyacá [REDACTED] Caldas [REDACTED] Caquetá [REDACTED] Casanare [REDACTED] Cauca [REDACTED] Cesar [REDACTED] Chocó [REDACTED] Córdoba [REDACTED] Cundinamarca [REDACTED] Guainía [REDACTED] Guaviare [REDACTED] Huila [REDACTED] La Guajira [REDACTED] Magdalena [REDACTED] Meta [REDACTED] Nariño [REDACTED] N. Santander [REDACTED] Putumayo [REDACTED] Quindío [REDACTED] Risaralda [REDACTED] San Andrés [REDACTED] Santander [REDACTED] Sucre [REDACTED] Tolima [REDACTED] Valle del Cauca [REDACTED] Vaupés [REDACTED] Vichada Capital district: [REDACTED] Bogotá Huila Department Huila department had
64-570: Was occupied during the Pre-Columbian era by numerous Indian tribes, including Quillacingas, Awá , Pasto, and Tumas. The first European conquistador who entered the territory was Andagoya Pascual in 1522, who traveled from the Colombian Pacific coast and then used information obtained by Francisco Pizarro to organize the expedition that culminated in the conquest of Peru . Juan de Ampudia and Pedro de Añazco first explored
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