Guaitarilla

Guaitarilla is a small town located in Nariño, Colombia. It is home to roughly 11,582 residents. Guaitarilla maps to 1.131°, -77.548° — squarely within the equatorial belt. Public records associate its founding with 1536. That works out to roughly 96 residents per square kilometre — loosely populated. The latitude suggests cooler air and shorter growing seasons than surrounding lowlands, tempered by elevation. Spanning an area of about 121 km², Guaitarilla lies at a very high elevation of 2627 m. Settlements at this altitude generally face thinner air, cooler nights, and steeper terrain. Additional figures on demographics, climate, geography and points of interest appear in the sections that follow, all drawn from open public datasets.

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