Piamonte

Piamonte
Municipality and town
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Location of the municipality and town of Piamonte in the Cauca Department of Colombia.
Coordinates: 1°07′10″N 76°19′37″W / 1.11944°N 76.32694°W / 1.11944; -76.32694
Country	Colombia
Department	Cauca Department
Founded	2 July 1959 [2]
Founded by	Aristides Pérez
Elevation	300 m (1,000 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	9,259[1]
Time zone	UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)
Climate	Af
Website	www.piamonte-cauca.gov.co

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

Piamonte was founded in 1959 as a district of the municipality of Santa Rosa. Its inhabitants are settlers from various regions of the interior of Colombia that have been established there in successive migrations attracted initially by the quinine bonanza in the 1930s, displaced by the violence in the 1950s and 1960s and finally attracted by the oil fever. There are also members of the Inga indigenous community. Piamonte was declared as municipality in 1996.

The municipality of Piamonte borders to the north with the Huila Department and the municipality of Santa Rosa in the Cauca Department; to the East with the Caquetá Department with the municipalities of Belén de los Andaquíes and San José del Fragua, to the West with the municipality of Santa Rosa and the Río Caquetá and towards the south with the Putumayo department.