Coordinates | 56°09′″N40°25′″N |
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Name | Pasto |
Official name | San Juan de Pasto |
Settlement type | City |
Nickname | Ciudad Sorpresa (Surprise City) Ciudad Teológica (Theological City) Tierra del Galeras (Galeras's Land) |
Settlement type | City |
Motto | "Muy Noble Y Muy Leal Ciudad de San Juan de Pasto" ("Very Noble and Very Loyal City of San Juan de Pasto) |
Image shield | Coat of arms of San Juan de Pasto.png |
Map caption | Location of the municipality and city of Pasto in the Department of Nariño |
Pushpin map | Colombia |
Pushpin map caption | Location in Colombia |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Coordinates region | CO |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Subdivision type1 | Region |
Subdivision name1 | Pacific Region/Andes Region |
Subdivision type2 | Department |
Subdivision name2 | Nariño |
Government type | Municipality |
Leader title | Mayor |
Leader name | Eduardo Alvarado Santander |
Established title | Founding |
Established date | 1537 |
Founder | Sebastián de Belalcázar |
Established title2 | Established |
Established date2 | 1539-06-24 (Atriz Valley) |
Established title3 | |
Named for | Saint John the Baptist |
Unit pref | |
Area land km2 | 1181 |
Area urban km2 | 26.4 |
Population total | 399723 |
Population density km2 | auto |
Timezone | Eastern Time Zone |
Utc offset | -05 |
Coordinates type | region:CO_type:city(399723) |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Elevation footnotes | |
Elevation m | 2527 |
Postal code type | Postal code |
Postal code | 90-210 |
Area code | 092, 072, 052 |
Website | pasto.gov.co |
Footnotes | }} |
Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto, is the capital of the department of Nariño, located in southwest Colombia. The city is located in the "Atriz Valley", on the Andes cordillera, at the foot of the Galeras volcano, at an altitude of 8,290 feet (2,527 m) above sea level. The city has a population of approximately 400,000 inhabitants.
It is easy to find a wide variety of handcrafts made of different kind of materials like wood, varnish, leather and wool.
A speciality of this region is a pre-Columbian art technique called Barniz de Pasto, or Pasto Varnish in English. This uses a type of natural rubber (extracted from a tree called mopa-mopa) which is colored and then stretched over woodwork pieces; finally the skillful artisan uses a special knife to cut and create the many beautiful designs that characterise this artistic technique.
It has been an administrative, cultural and religious center of the region since colonial times. Because of this, the city is known as the theological city of Colombia. During the Independence Wars against Spain Pasto was a royalist city, unlike the rest of the country. Partly due to this political stance, and because of its geographical location, after independence Pasto remained isolated for a long time from the rest of the Colombia.
On June 25, 2006 Deportivo Pasto became the champion of the 1st division of soccer in Colombia.
The city airport Antonio Nariño(PSO) is located at the north of the city in Chachagui.
In the telecommunication infrastructure are several Internet service providers like Une, Telecom and Telmex, offering broadband internet, television and telephony.
The city Football soccer stadium "Estadio Libertad" has capacity for 35.530 spectators.
Category:Populated places established in 1539 Category:Populated places in the Nariño Department Category:Municipalities of Nariño Category:Capitals of Colombian Departments
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