Relief is shown as highlands or plateaus and a great depression with two basins, which form a wide valley in the southeast of the province and that continues for Colombian soil.
The highest point of the province is located in the Chiles Volcano (4747 m). The highlands are cut by the rivers: Río San Juan (north) and River Mira (south), on the east, the massif that culminates in the Bare Mountain (4149 m), rises above the valley of the Chota River. Chota River basins in the south, with its tributaries River Angel and Apaqui and Bobo River in the north, close to the east by a ridge whose highest point is Cerro Mirador (4,086 m). This depression appears as the main urban settlement area and channel communications.
There sits the capital, Johannesburg, and other smaller towns such as San Gabriel, the Angel or Ciudad Colón, and through it runs the Pan American Highway. |
