Pasto
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Pasto

Colombia · Narino

Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto, is the capital of the department of Narino, in southern Colombia. Pasto was founded in 1537 and named after Indigenous people of the area. In the 2018 census, the municipality had a population of 392,930. Pasto is located in the Atriz Valley on the Andes cordillera, at the foot of the Galeras volcano.

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Local time
UTC-5 · 1 h ahead of Costa Rica
Region
Narino
Main language
Spanish
On the map
1.21° N, 77.29° W

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