Nariño
The department of Nariño , whose political and administrative capital is Pasto or more precisely San Juan de Pasto, is located at the south-west of the Colombia. Pasto, which is a town of intermediate size, is located in the node which gives rise to the three chains of the Andes cordillera which starts from there and which separately assembles all the three until the north of the country.
In the south of the department the Ecuador is, in the East is the department of Putumayo, in the North-East that of Caqueta, in North Cauca and the West the Pacific Ocean.
During the colonial time, the town of Pasto was founded the day of Midsummer's Day on June 24th of the year 1560. The city, which counts more 500 000 inhabitants, saw his number increasing much these last years because of internal problems of displacement due to violences which the country has known for already soon 5 decades. However, even if the department of Nariño recently knows the disorders which knew of other departments before him, it does not remain about it less than its environment very varied and rich in landscapes is attractive. It should be said that the department knows an exceptional situation: it shelters a multitude of different regions such as, in the West, the still wild beaches of the Pacific; between the coasts of the Pacific and the mountains grounds hot and rich in culture are. On the plates, in the Andean mountains, other types of agriculture and breeding are. Then after the node of the Andes, altitude drops to reach the Amazon forest (department of Putumayo).
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