Popayán

Cauca Department · Colombia

Popayán, Colombia
Photo: Car710, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Holy Week for processions; December to February is driest
Budget
$
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The 'White City' of southern Colombia, its uniformly whitewashed colonial center rebuilt with care after repeated earthquakes. Its Holy Week processions are among the oldest in the Americas, and UNESCO has recognized the city's distinctive gastronomy, from empanadas de pipián to carantanta.

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