South Pacific/ Western Cordillera

South Pacific/ Western Cordillera

 

     This region covers the whole of the south west of Colombia and includes the departamentos of Putumayo, Narino, Cauca and Valle de Cauca. Politically it borders on Ecuador to the south and contains the source of the Rio Atrato that flow northwards to the Gulf of Uraba and provides the main north-south access route throughout this and linked regions to the north. The area is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean to the east by the westernmost of three Andean cordilleras which divide the country and historically have made east-west communication extremely difficult.

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