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Garzón, Colombia
October 10, 2025
Garzón, population of about 40,000, doesn’t make the glossy brochures, but maybe that’s what makes it worth stopping for. It calls itself the “Diocesan Capital of Huila,” which sounds a little lofty until you see the cathedral towering over the main plaza - white walls glowing in the afternoon sun, bells that have probably been ringing longer than most of the town’s coffee trees have been alive. Right now the plaza is surrounded by a temporary wall as it has been completely dug up for renovation. When I say completely dug up, I'm not kidding - they took all the concrete, tiles, pavers, sidewalks, everything out. It's rather ugly right now, and getting a decent picture of the cathedral is impossible, but sometime in the next year or two it should be quite nice.
Reference: Wikipedia and me.
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Villagarzón, Colombia
October 7, 2025
Villagarzón is a small town in south-central Colombia. According the 2018 census had around 23,700 people overall, with about 13,742 in the urban area. The town is often called the “Heart of Putumayo,” reflecting its centrality in culture, ecology, and movement between regions. Putumayo is the departamento, or province, that it is located in.
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La Hormiga, Colombia
October 5, 2025
La Hormiga is the municipal seat of Valle del Guamuez, in southern Putumayo, Colombia. It’s modest, unshowy, and very much a working town. You won’t leave here feeling like you’ve seen a “destination”—but that’s okay. It’s a place that lives more than it dazzles.
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Escaping the Humidity: A Journey from Ecuador's Amazon to Colombia's Andes
October 4, 2025
I arrived in La Hormiga, Colombia, on Oct. 3. La Hormiga is a small and noisy town on the Colombian edge of the Amazon. After weeks of scratchy throat and sleepless nights from the humid air of the northern Ecuador Amazon region, I decided to leave the it behind and head for higher, drier ground. For almost three months I had lived in the forests and mountains of Peru and Ecuador, places I loved, but northern Amazonia simply wasn’t for me.
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Shushufindi, Ecuador
October 3, 2025
Shushufindi is the cantonal seat of the Shushufindi Canton (county), in Ecuador’s Sucumbíos Province. It sits in the Amazon region on a broad plain along the right bank of the Shushufindi River, at about 260 meters above sea level. The climate is typically tropical, with heavy rainfall and an average temperature around 27 °C. Its name comes from the Cofán language: shushu meaning “puerco sahino” (a type of wild pig) and findi meaning “hummingbird,” reflecting the abundance of both in the region when the area was named. The canton itself was officially created on August 7, 1984, and the date is still celebrated each year as the anniversary of its “cantonization.”
Reference: Wikipedia – Shushufindi
Reference: Shushufindi Alcaldía
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