Kanyasgordas

Kanyasgordas
	City
Kanyasgordas
	Spanish Cañasgordas
	Flag
A country	Colombia
The Department	Antioquia
History and Geography
Founded	1773
Area	391 km²
Center height	1770 m
Timezone	UTC − 5
Population
Population	16 793 people ( 2012 )
Official language	Spanish
	canasgordas-antioquia.gov.co (Spanish)

Cañasgordas ( Spanish: Cañasgordas ) is a city and municipality in the west of Colombia , in the Antioquia department. It is part of the Western Antioquia subregion .

Content

1 History
2 Geographical location
3 population
4 Economics
5 notes

History

Before the arrival of the Spaniards in the territory of the municipality, representatives of the Indian tribe es: Catíos lived. The settlement from which the city later grew was founded on January 1, 1773 . The municipality of Kanyasgordas was separated into a separate administrative unit in 1823 .

Geographical position

Buritika Municipality

The city is located in the western part of the department, in the highlands of Western Cordillera , about 69 kilometers northwest of Medellin , the administrative center of the department. The absolute height is 1770 meters above sea level ^[1] .
Municipality of Cañasgordas borders in the north with the municipalities of Uramita and Peke , in the east with the municipality of Buritika , in the southeast with the municipality of Giraldo , in the southwest with the municipality of Abriaki , in the west with the municipality of Frontino . The area of the municipality is 391 km² ^[2] .

Population

According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia, the total population of the city and municipality in 2012 was 16,793 people ^[3] . The dynamics of the population of the municipality by years:

Population by Years
2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
16 816	16 806	16 832	16,828	16,820	16,808	16,808	16 793

According to the 2005 census, men made up 51.2% of the population of Kanyasgordas, women - 48.8%, respectively. Racially, whites and mestizos accounted for 98.1% of the city's population; Negroes , mulattoes and Raysals - 1.9% ^[4] . The literacy rate of the entire population was 80%.

Economics

The basis of the economy of Kanyasgordas is agricultural production and mining. On the territory of the municipality, coffee , beans, bananas, sugarcane , corn and other crops are grown.
58.3% of the total number of urban and municipal enterprises are trade enterprises, 31.7% are service enterprises, 9% are industrial enterprises, 1% are enterprises of other sectors of the economy ^[4] .

Notes

↑ Canasgordas, Colombia Page . Fallingrain Global Gazetteer. Date of treatment February 17, 2014.
↑ Municipalities of Colombia . Statoids.com. Date of treatment February 17, 2014.
↑ Proyecciones de Población departamentales y municipales por área 2005 - 2020 (Spanish) . Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística. Date of treatment February 18, 2014.
↑ ¹ ² Censo General 2005. Perfil Cañasgordas - Antioquia (Spanish) . Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica. Date of treatment February 18, 2014.

[fallingrain-1] Canasgordas, Colombia Page . Fallingrain Global Gazetteer. Date of treatment February 17, 2014.

[2] Municipalities of Colombia . Statoids.com. Date of treatment February 17, 2014.

[3] Proyecciones de Población departamentales y municipales por área 2005 - 2020 (Spanish) . Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística. Date of treatment February 18, 2014.

[Censo-4] ¹ ² Censo General 2005. Perfil Cañasgordas - Antioquia (Spanish) . Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica. Date of treatment February 18, 2014.