The sugar cluster is located in 39 municipalities of the provinces of Caldas, Cauca, Risaralda and Cauca Valley in the inter-Andean valley of the Cauca River in southwestern Colombia.

Considering only the area cultivated with sugarcane, the conglomerate covers almost 200,000 ha, 78% of which are found in the Province of the Cauca Valley, 19% in Cauca, 1.6% in Risaralda and 1.3% in Caldas. It stretches from the municipality of Belalcázar in Caldas to the municipality of Santander de Quilichao in Cauca. The total area of the cluster, adding the area with cane and other areas of influence, is 429 ha. The sugar cluster is a part of the agricultural, livestock and industrial sectors, specializing in the production of sugarcane, sugars, molasses and alcohol (ethanol).

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This information was taken from the document's sugar conglomerate Valle del Cauca, Colombia, information prepared by the National Productivity Centre (NPC), Colombia, led by Felipe Millan Development Unit for Industrial and Technological and Productive Development Division Business, in the framework of the "Clusters around natural resources ", implemented by ECLAC and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), supported by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. Available at: http://www.eclac.org/