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Faculty of Agricultural Sciences


Las Guacas Campus

The physical facilities of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences are located in the Las Guacas rural district, in the rural area of Popayán. The access roads branch off from the Pan-American Highway; one passes through the La Paz and Matamoros neighborhoods, while the other leads to the San Isidro Penitentiary. These facilities are 45 minutes from the city center, and currently, six public transportation routes provide service from 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The physical facilities of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Cauca consist of a rural campus covering approximately nine hectares, an area in which 20 classrooms have been built, 16 of them with an approximate area of 53 m², while the remaining four have an approximate area of 79 m² and a maximum capacity of 40 students.

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The Faculty’s facilities are distributed as follows: Dean’s Office, General Secretariat, Graduate Studies Office, Administrative Secretariat, Agricultural Advisory Office, Student Office, Archives, and Meeting Room for councils and committees; Coordination Rooms for the Agricultural Engineering, Forest Engineering, and Agroindustrial Engineering programs; as well as a Faculty Lounge that accommodates the faculty members of the aforementioned programs, a Study Room, an Auditorium with an approximate capacity of 200 people, a Computer Room with 35 computers and a staff member assigned to it full-time, a Graduate Studies Room for 33 attendees, and sports facilities consisting of a natural-grass 8-a-side soccer field, a multipurpose sports court (basketball, volleyball, and indoor soccer), and a multiple bars area.

In addition to a cafeteria, snack bar, library, Biotechnology Laboratory, Rheology and Packaging Laboratory, Multipurpose Laboratory, Wood Laboratory, Animal Facility, and Pilot Plants housing the seed, dairy, meat, and vegetable laboratories, the Faculty also has restrooms and a parking lot with capacity for approximately 50 vehicles, 120 motorcycles, and 20 bicycles.

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On the other hand, there are several areas designated for fieldwork in courses such as Introduction to Agricultural Engineering, in which students are responsible for different planting activities in planting beds; another planting area, where students carry out practical work for the Plant Propagation course; the Integrated Agricultural Production Systems area, where vegetable and seasonal crops are established; a collection of 60 tree and shrub forage species from different thermal floors; a collection of 16 species of medicinal and aromatic plants; as well as two 24-square-meter sheds, one for managing laying hens and the other for rabbits.

Likewise, there is a shed equipped with metabolic cages for evaluating forage digestibility tests in broiler chickens, work carried out under a research agreement with CIAT, as well as extensive green areas and conservation areas.

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Universidad del Cauca

NIT. 891500319-2

Address: Calle 5 # 4 - 70 | Popayan, Colombia

Telephone: +57 (602) 820 9900

Toll-free: 018000 949020

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