Ipiales

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City in Colombia This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish.  (October 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Ipiales]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Ipiales}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Ipiales" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Municipality and town in Nariño Department, ColombiaIpialesMunicipality and townAerial view of Ipiales and Plaza 20 de Julio FlagCoat of armsLocation of the municipality and town of Ipiales in the Nariño Department of Colombia.IpialesLocation in ColombiaCoordinates: 0°49′49″N 77°38′40″W / 0.83028°N 77.64444°W / 0.83028; -77.64444Country ColombiaDepartmentNariño DepartmentGovernment • MayorLuis Fernando VillotaArea • Municipality and town1,572 km2 (607 sq mi) • Urban14.27 km2 (5.51 sq mi)Elevation2,898 m (9,508 ft)Population (2018 census) • Municipality and town116,136 • Density73.88/km2 (191.3/sq mi) • Urban77,343 • Urban density5,420/km2 (14,040/sq mi)DemonymIpialeñoTime zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)WebsiteOfficial website (in Spanish) Ipiales is a city and Catholic bishopric in Nariño Department, southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador. It is located at around 0°49′49″N 77°38′40″W / 0.83028°N 77.64444°W / 0.83028; -77.64444, with an elevation of about 2950 m. Ipiales is located on the high plateau called "Tuquerres e Ipiales," and lies at a distance of 82 km from Pasto, the department's capital. Ipiales is known as "la ciudad de las nubes verdes" (the city of the green clouds) because sometimes, especially in the afternoon, greenish clouds appear over the city. One of the area's favorite foods is the guinea pig or cavy (Cavia porcellus), called kuy or kuwi. The economy of this city is based on border trade between Ecuador and Colombia.

Geography

[edit] Las Lajas Cathedral Landscape ipialeño. The municipality of Ipiales is the southwest of Colombia, and the Department of Nariño, in the Andean highlands of 'Túquerres and Ipiales'. The city is located 3 km from the Colombian-Ecuadorian and 82 km of Pasto. It communicates with the interior by the Pan American Highway, which continues along the Ecuadorian population Tulcán, after crossing the international bridge Rumichaca (Quechua rumi stone, chaka bridge, "stone bridge") over the river Carchi in Narino territory called Guaytara to 800 meters, from the viewpoint of Ipiales. Orographic[edit] The orographic Ipiales Township are part of Narino highlands, the Guaitara canyon, and the Western Cordillera; Cofanía valley and part of the Amazon basin. The moors: to Mueses and The Palace, the hills: Troy, La Quinta, Culachí, Black, French, Tigre and Pax. The territory of the municipality is slightly wavy with climatic zones: cold, desert, warm, medium, respectively. Geographic Institute "Agustin Codazzi '. T. Andrade, Ob. cit., 1974. 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. Hydrography[edit] Guáytara (name quechua) Consists of three major watersheds: Jácome Benavides, Julio and others. Diagnosis municipal Ipiales. Guáitara River Basin, and its tributaries: Boqueron River in the upper part is broken Doña Juana Blanco River, Carchi, Morro broken, or Pulcas Teques, Orejuela, El Rosario, Cutuaquer. Bishop Mejía says, "but no river Guaytara explored more in our land and dug more in our soul."; Mejia Mejia, JC Villaviciosa Hatunllacta province. "River engineer" for its dramatic chasms, its spectacular canyon and beautiful landscapes in their journey of 135 miles to its mouth in the Patia River. Chingual River Basin, which in its upper part is broken or Chúnquer Pun, and San Francisco River tributaries, Green, Yamués, The Cultún. San Miguel River Basin, and its tributaries: River Churuyaco, Sapoyaco, Rumiyaco, Kerosene, Lora, Rancheria. Climate[edit] Ipiales features an unusually cool subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cfb), with an average temperature around 15 °C or 27 °F cooler than its near equatorial climate might suggest, due to the city's high altitude of almost 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) above sea level, which makes it the highest major city in Colombia and one of the highest on Earth. The average temperature is cold for a subtropical highland climate with the city escaping an ETH (alpine) classification by less than 1.5 °C or 2.7 °F. Temperatures rarely break the 20 °C (68 °F) mark or fall below freezing, giving the city perpetual spring-like weather. Ipiales has a rainier season from October to May and a drier season from June through September. Rainfall is frequent though not heavy year round, falling on an average of 235 days for an annual total of approximately 925 millimetres or 36 inches. Climate data for Ipiales (San Luis Airport), elevation 2,961 m (9,715 ft), (1981–2010) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 16.3(61.3) 16.4(61.5) 16.3(61.3) 16.4(61.5) 16.0(60.8) 15.1(59.2) 14.6(58.3) 14.9(58.8) 15.9(60.6) 16.8(62.2) 16.9(62.4) 16.6(61.9) 16.0(60.8) Daily mean °C (°F) 11.2(52.2) 11.3(52.3) 11.4(52.5) 11.4(52.5) 11.3(52.3) 10.6(51.1) 10.0(50.0) 10.0(50.0) 10.5(50.9) 11.1(52.0) 11.4(52.5) 11.3(52.3) 11.0(51.8) Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 5.8(42.4) 6.0(42.8) 6.4(43.5) 6.6(43.9) 6.6(43.9) 6.0(42.8) 5.1(41.2) 4.6(40.3) 4.6(40.3) 5.6(42.1) 6.2(43.2) 6.2(43.2) 5.8(42.4) Average precipitation mm (inches) 73.9(2.91) 71.7(2.82) 95.2(3.75) 102.1(4.02) 82.5(3.25) 51.4(2.02) 40.5(1.59) 31.7(1.25) 42.6(1.68) 84.9(3.34) 100.9(3.97) 97.2(3.83) 874.6(34.43) Average precipitation days 19 18 20 21 22 22 20 18 17 19 20 21 236 Average relative humidity (%) 83 83 84 85 85 85 84 82 81 82 83 84 83 Mean monthly sunshine hours 133.3 107.3 99.2 111.0 127.1 129.0 139.5 139.5 129.0 130.2 123.0 130.2 1,498.3 Mean daily sunshine hours 4.3 3.8 3.2 3.7 4.1 4.3 4.5 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.2 4.1 Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales

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