Seville (Colombia)

Seville
Coordinates: 4 ° 16 ′ N , 75 ° 56 ′ W Seville on the map of Colombia	Seville
	Seville
	Location of the municipality of Seville on the map of Valle del Cauca
Basic data
Country	Colombia
Department	Valle del Cauca
City foundation	1903
Residents	44,028 (2019)
	City insignia
Detailed data
surface	639 km 2
Population density	69 people / km 2
height	1612 m
Time zone	UTC -5
City Presidency	Freddy Omar Osorio (2016-2019)
Website	www.sevilla-valle.gov.co
	View of Seville
	Coffee growing in the municipality of Seville

Sevilla is a commune ( municipality ) in the department of Valle del Cauca in Colombia .

geography

Seville is located in the Oriente sub-region in Valle del Cauca at an altitude of 1612 m above sea level. NN , 156 km from Cali and 40 km from Armenia and has an average annual temperature of 20 ° C. Seville is located on the west side of the Central Cordillera of the Andes . The municipality borders in the north on Zarzal and La Tebaida in the Departamento Quindío , in the south on Tuluá , in the east on Caicedonia and Roncesvalles and Chaparral in Tolima and Génova in Quindío and in the west on Zarzal and Bugalagrande .

population

The municipality of Seville has 44,028 inhabitants, of which 34,226 live in the urban part (cabecera municipal) of the municipality (as of 2019).

history

Seville was founded in 1903 by Heraclio Uribe Uribe as San Luis and settled from Antioquia and Caldas . The place became a Corregimiento of Bugalagrande in 1904 and a municipality as Seville in 1914.

economy

The most important branch of the economy in Seville is agriculture , especially the cultivation of coffee , which is why Seville markets itself as the coffee capital of Colombia (Capital Cafetera de Colombia) . In addition, bananas , cassava , sugar cane , corn , beans , potatoes and barley grown. In addition, cattle production , trade , the timber industry and mining play an important role. There are gold , salt , copper , mercury and kaolinite mined, but mostly in smaller scale.

Personalities

Carlos J. Moreno (* 1946), Colombian-American mathematician

Web links

Commons : Seville - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Alcaldia de Seville. Alcaldía de Sevilla - Valle del Cauca, accessed on May 2, 2019 (Spanish, website of the municipality of Seville).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Nuestro municipio. Alcaldía de Sevilla - Valle del Cauca, accessed on May 2, 2019 (Spanish, information on the municipality).
↑ ESTIMACIONES DE POBLACIÓN 1985 - 2005 Y PROYECCIONES DE POBLACIÓN 2005 - 2020 TOTAL DEPARTAMENTAL POR ÁREA. (Excel; 1.72 MB) DANE, May 11, 2011, accessed on May 2, 2019 (Spanish, extrapolation of the population of Colombia).

[municipio-1] Nuestro municipio. Alcaldía de Sevilla - Valle del Cauca, accessed on May 2, 2019 (Spanish, information on the municipality).

[2] ESTIMACIONES DE POBLACIÓN 1985 - 2005 Y PROYECCIONES DE POBLACIÓN 2005 - 2020 TOTAL DEPARTAMENTAL POR ÁREA. (Excel; 1.72 MB) DANE, May 11, 2011, accessed on May 2, 2019 (Spanish, extrapolation of the population of Colombia).