The average height of the town is 2900 m, making it Colombia's highest city (although not the highest town) and among the highest cities in the world.
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It communicates with the interior by the Pan American Highway, which continues along the Ecuadorian population Tulcán, after crossing the International Bridge Rumichaca, language Quechua means "stone bridge" over the river Carchi in Narino territory called Guaytara (blue river) to 800 meters, from the viewpoint of Ipiales.