Editing Cauca Department (section)

==Economy==
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|1938 | 356040
|1951 | 391509
|1964 | 607197
|1973 | 582709
|1985 | 857751
|1993 | 1127678
|2005 | 1268937
|2018 | 1464488
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The Cauca economy is based primarily on agriculture and livestock production, forestry, fishing and trade. Agriculture has been developed and modernized in the northern department, with the main crops being sugar cane, cane panela, conventional maize, rice, corn tech, banana, agave, yucca, potatoes, coconut, sorghum, cocoa, groundnut, and palm.

In the Pacific region is extracted gold, silver and platinum. Other non-precious minerals that are exploited are sulfur, asbestos, limestone, talc, gypsum and coal. The manufacturing industry is located in Popayán, [[Santander de Quilichao]], [[Puerto Tejada, Cauca|Puerto Tejada]] with factories of food, beverages, dairy products, paper, packaging, [[wood processing]], [[sugar industry]] and paper processing for export. The main centers of commercial activity are Popayán, Santander de Quilichao, [[Patia, Cauca|Patia]], Puerto Tejada, [[Piendamó, Cauca|Piendamó]] and [[Corinto, Cauca|Corinto]].