Samaniego, Nariño

This article is about the town in Colombia. For the town in Spain, see Samaniego, Spain. For people whose surname is Samaniego, see List of people with surname Samaniego.
Samaniego
Municipality and town
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Location of the municipality and town of Samaniego, Nariño, in the Nariño Department of Colombia.
Country Colombia
DepartmentNariño Department
Population
 (2020 est.)
 • Total
49,085
Time zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)

Samaniego (Spanish pronunciation: [samaˈnjeɣo]) is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia.

Samaniego is known as the landscape's city and musical of Nariño. The majority of the city's population is dedicated to coffee and sugar cane to manufacture a handcrafted product named Panela, similar to sugar. Samaniego is known for having the principal youngest musical competition in Nariño, called the Departmental Competition of Musical Bands and Meeting of Dances in Nariño, where 20 musical bands have a competition to be the best band in Nariño and represent Nariño in other band competitions like in the Vega - Cundinamarca, San Pedro - Valle and Paipa - Boyaca.

Eight people were killed in the August 2020 Massacre of Samaniego. The victims are identified as Brayan Cuaran, Bairón Patiño, Elian Benavides, Daniel Vargas, Laura Riascos, Joan Quintero, Rubén Ibarra, and Óscar Obando.

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