CALI  , an inland

town of the department of Cauca, Colombia, South America, about 18o m . S.W. of Bogota and So M . S.E. of the port of Buenaventura, on the Rio Cali, a small branch of the Cauca . Pop . (1906 estimate) 16,000 . Cali stands 3327 ft. above sea-level on the western side of the Cauca valley, one of the healthiest regions of Colombia . The land-locked character of this region greatly restricts the city's trade and development; but it is considered the most important town in the department . It has a bridge across the Cali, and a number of religious and public edifices . A railway from Buenaventura will give Cali and the valley behind it, with which it is connected by over 20o m, of river navigation, a good outlet on the Pacific coast . Coal deposits exist in the immediate vicinity of the town .