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9 unusual facts about Cauca


Arley Dinas

José Arley Dinas Rodríguez, or simply known as Arley Dinas (born May 16, 1974 in Caloto, Colombia) is a former Colombian football player.

Florencia

Florencia, Cauca, a town and municipality in the Department of Cauca, Colombia

Jimmy Bermúdez

Born in Puerto Tejada, Cauca, Bermúdez can play as center back and was a starter in the 2007 Sudamericana Sub 20 team.

Jorge Rivera Galindo

Jorge Rivera Galindo (born October 28, 1978 in Puerto Tejada, Cauca, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer currently playing for León de Huánuco of the Primera División in Peru.

Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame

Thanks to an organization created years earlier by the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame (1880–1967), the group had the support of many indigenous communities in the region of the Valle del Cauca, Huila, Tolima, and parts of the departments of Meta and Caquetá Department.

Quintin Lame Armed Movement (Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame, MAQL) was founded in 1984 as an indigenous guerrilla movement that operated in the department of Cauca, a province in south central Colombia that is 40 percent indigenous and characterized by large landholdings, unequal land tenure, and conflict between indigenous reservations and landowners.

The treaty between Quintin Lame and government was signed by Jesus Antonio Bejarano, a government negotiator, at an Indian guerrilla camp near the southern town of Caldono.

Totoro

Totoro, Cauca, a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia

Yoiver González

Yoiver González (born 22 November 1989 in Puerto Tejada), also known as Zeiver Gonzales Ondo, is a Colombian-born Equatoguinean-naturalised football defender, who currently plays for América de Cali in the Categoría Primera B.


2011 Colombia floods

Based on media reports, more than a year's worth of rain fell in under a month, causing the Magdalena and Cauca Rivers to overflow their banks.

Alexander Escobar Gañán

Escobar was part of the youth team of América de Cali, and played for the national football team of Valle del Cauca on 1982 and 1983.

Carlos Barahona

Carlos Barahona Angulo (born January 20, 1980 in Bugalagrande, Valle del Cauca) is a Colombian goalkeeper.

Champús

Champús is a drink popular in Peru, Ecuador and southwest Colombia (Departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño), made with maize, fruits such as lulo (also known as naranjilla), pineapple, quince or guanábana, sweetened with panela and seasoned with cinnamon, cloves and orange tree leaves.

Diego León Montoya Sánchez

In a briefing by the Colombian Ministry of Defense during the presentation of Montoya to the public through Caracol TV, the General of the Colombian Army Mario Montoya Uribe detailed the operation dubbed as Operation Simeón which started at 0430 hrs on 10 September 2007 after a military intelligence operation between the municipalities of Zarzal and La Unión in northern Valle del Cauca Department.

Flor Ruiz

Flor Denis Ruiz Hurtado (born 29 January 1991 in Pradera), Valle Del Cauca, is a Colombian javelin thrower.

Harold Gómez

Harold Andrés Gómez Muñoz (born 21 April 1992 in Popayán, Cauca) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays for Once Caldas in the Copa Mustang, as a midfielder.

John Arlington González

John Arlinton González (born February 2, 1989 in Caloto, Cauca) is a Colombian football midfielder, who played for Millonarios in the Copa Mustang.

SATENA

Since its creation, the airline has performed many public services on behalf of the Colombian people, having provided service during crises in the country's history, as was the case of the Huila and Cauca earthquake of June 6, 1994, when SATENA performed search and rescue operations, airlifted local residents, as well as transporting needed medicines, foods and aid in general to the site of the tragedy.

Tierradentro

Tierradentro is a National archeological park in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Inza, Department of Cauca, Colombia.


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