Miranda, Cauca

Miranda
Miranda
	Colombian municipality and town
	Flag Seal
	Location of the municipality and town of Miranda, Cauca in the Cauca Department of Colombia.
Country	Colombia
Department	Cauca Department
Government
• Alcalde	José Leonardo Valencia Narvaez (2016–2019)
Population (2020 est.[1])
• Total	43,333
Time zone	UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)
Climate	Aw

Miranda is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.

History

It was on May 7, 1899 when Don Julio Fernández Medina founded the city, since then the community mixed among Afro-Descendant, Indigenous people, Mulattoes and from different regions have built one of the most prosperous towns in the department. Today Miranda has strengths in the agroindustrial field, and growth in the tourism sector, because the natural wealth framed in its rivers, makes natural spas suitable for national and foreign tourists. Precisely in this year – towards the month of October – the War of the Thousand Days broke out, that lived in the Municipality of Miranda, it was known with the name of Revolution of the Manigua, according to narration of the caloteño historian Mariano Sendoya.[2]

References

"Resultados y proyecciones (2005-2020) del censo 2005". Retrieved April 12, 2020.
"Miranda, Cauca, celebra sus 113 años de fundación". Proclama del Cauca (In Spanish). Retrieved January 10, 2018.

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[Censo-1] "Resultados y proyecciones (2005-2020) del censo 2005". Retrieved April 12, 2020.

[2] "Miranda, Cauca, celebra sus 113 años de fundación". Proclama del Cauca (In Spanish). Retrieved January 10, 2018.