Caldas Department

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Caldas Department is an administrative region in west-central Colombia known for its mountainous terrain and major role in the country's coffee-growing axis.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Manizales 0
Nevado del Ruiz 0
Departamento de Caldas 1

Statements (56)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Colombian scientist
city
department of Colombia
stratovolcano
borderedBy Antioquia Department
Boyacá Department
Cundinamarca region
surface form: Cundinamarca Department

Quindío Department
Risaralda Department
Tolima Department
capital Manizales
capitalOf Caldas Department self-linksurface differs
country Colombia
established 1905
hasCity Aguadas
Anserma
Aranzazu
Sebastián de Benalcázar
surface form: Belalcázar

Chinchiná
Filadelfia
La Dorada
La Merced
Manzanares
Marmato
Marquetalia
Marulanda
Neira
Norcasia
Palestina
Pensilvania
Pácora
Riosucio
Salamina
Samaná
San José
Supía
Victoria
Villamaría
Viterbo
hasEconomicActivity cattle ranching
coffee cultivation
mining
hasMajorCity Manizales
hasMountain Nevado del Ruiz
knownFor coffee production
mountainous terrain
locatedIn Caldas Department self-linksurface differs
Cordillera Central of the Andes
surface form: Central Andes

Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia
surface form: Coffee-Growing Axis of Colombia

west-central Colombia
namedAfter Francisco José de Caldas
officialLanguage Spanish
partOf Andean Region of Colombia
Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia
surface form: Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis UNESCO World Heritage region
timeZone America/Bogota
surface form: Colombia Standard Time
utcOffset UTC−5

Referenced by (10)

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Cundinamarca region borders Caldas Department
subject surface form: Cundinamarca
subject surface form: Cundinamarca Department
Departamento de Cundinamarca borders Caldas Department
this entity surface form: Departamento de Caldas
Tolima Department borders Caldas Department
Tolima Department borders Caldas Department
this entity surface form: Risaralda Department
Caldas Department capitalOf Caldas Department self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Manizales
Antioquia Department hasBorderWith Caldas Department
Caldas Department locatedIn Caldas Department self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Nevado del Ruiz
Chocoan languages spokenIn Caldas Department