Yumbo is a small, industrial city and municipality in western Colombia. It is located in the Valle del Cauca Department, just north of Cali. In 2020, the municipality had a population of approximately 110,000.^[1]

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Yumbo
Municipality and town
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Location of the municipality and town of Yumbo in the Valle del Cauca Department of Colombia
Yumbo Location in Colombia
Coordinates: 3°35′N 76°28′W
Country	Colombia
Department	Valle del Cauca Department
Founded	1536
Incorporated	1864
Founded by	Miguel Muñoz
Government
• Mayor	David Murgueitio Fernando Cardenas
Area
• Municipality and town	230.6 km2 (89.0 sq mi)
• Urban	31.6 km2 (12.2 sq mi)
Elevation	855 m (2,805 ft)
Population  (2020 est.)[1]
• Municipality and town	110,069
• Density	480/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
• Urban	95,072
• Urban density	3,000/km2 (7,800/sq mi)
Demonym	Yumbo
Time zone	UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)
Area code	57 + 2
Website	Official website

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Modern Yumbo was founded in 1536 by Miguel Muñoz.^[2]

Yumbo has a relatively dry but extremely foggy and sunless tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) not unlike the climate of Bogotá except substantially hotter due to the lower elevation.

The closest airport that services the city is Cali's international airport, which is in Palmira and is called Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (CLO) or Palmaseca. Many airlines provide service for the airport, including American Airlines, AeroRepública, Spain's Iberia and Avianca, Colombia's largest airline.

The Universidad del Valle has a campus in Yumbo. Its address is located at Calle 2 Norte No. 1A - 105 Barrio Las Vegas.

The city of Yumbo is known to be a rough area with a few factories, including concrete plants, which causes air pollution in that area. Bico International, a company that makes a complete line of school and office products, has a production plant in Yumbo, where it exports to various countries in Latin America. In August 2006, SABMiller plc, one of the world’s leading brewers, announced it would invest $175 million US dollars in a new brewery in Yumbo, in order to keep pace with growing demand in the western Colombia. The new brewery, which will become operational in late 2007, will have an initial capacity of 350 million litres, increasing to 450 million litres by 2009. It will replace an existing 130 million litre facility in the central Cali, which is almost 80 years old and is on a site that can no longer be expanded. The new plant will be built on a high technological level and will provide employment for approximately 200 people. It will also include two new bottling lines, a keg plant and a new can line by the year 2009.