Colombians make a lot of assumptions about their fellow Colombians based on what part of the country they are from. The second largest population center after Bogota is the town of Medellin, in the department (like a US state) of Antioquia, and people from that part of the country are known a “paisas.”
People who live in the coffee growing region (Eje Cafetera) are also known as paisas, because those departments are near Antioquia and were settled by people from Antioquia. Those departments are Risaralda (capital, Pereira), Caldas (capital, Manizales), and Quindio (capital, Armenia).
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