This map was created by Colombian cartographers Manuel María Paz and Manuel Ponce de León in 1864 and published in 1865 in the Atlas of the United States of Colombia. The map depicts the state of Cauca during the period of the United States of Colombia and before the territorial reform that divided Colombia into departments in 1905.
The former state of Cauca bordered the state of Tolima, the state of Antioquia and the state of Bolívar to the east, the Caribbean Sea to the north, the state of Panama to the north-west, the Pacific Ocean to the west and Ecuador to the south. The capital was located in the city of Popayán.


