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Chinchiná

Chinchiná · Colombia
Chinchiná, Colombia
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Known as Colombia's "coffee heart," Chinchiná is a town in Caldas founded in 1857 by Antioquian colonists and set in a valley of coffee plantations in the Central Andes. It is home to the Buendía coffee factory and Cenicafé, a national coffee research centre, and the surrounding municipality was designated part of the Coffee Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011. The active volcano Nevado del Ruiz lies a short distance to the east.

  • Population68,512
  • Nearest water from center0.3 km
  • Nearest mountain from center3.6 km
  • UNESCO within 50 km4

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