South AmericaColombiaValle del Cauca Department
Cali
Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia · South America
About Cali
Cali sits on the route: 20 minutes from Yumbo.
Cali is in Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia, with about 2.4 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Yumbo, about 17 km away.
Santiago de Cali (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe ˈkali]), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with an estimated 2.3 million residents in 2026. The city spans 560.3 km2 (216.3 sq mi) with 120.9 km2 (46.7 sq mi) of urban area, making Cali theRead more
second-largest city in the country by area and the third most populous. Cali is the main urban and economic center in the south of the country, and has one of Colombia's fastest-growing economies. The city was founded on 25 July 1536 by the Spanish explorer Sebastián de Belalcázar.
As a sporting center for Colombia, it was the host city for the 1971 Pan American Games. Cali also hosted the 1992 World Wrestling Championships, the 2013 edition of the World Games, the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2014, the World Youth Championships in Athletics in 2015 as well as the inaugural Junior Pan American Games in 2021 and the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships.
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Cali is in Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia, about 17 km from Yumbo.
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- Population
- 2,392,877
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- Valle del Cauca Department
- Timezone
- America/Bogota
- Coordinates
- 3.4305, -76.5199
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