Pasto

Pasto is almost 8,300 feet up in the mountains, so it was cold and crisp, with a blaze of stars across the sky.

Pasto remained faithfully loyalist—a Vendee into which many republican armies were destined to dash in vain.

Benalcazar went straight north from Pasto and entered the region where the Cauca gathers its headwaters.

Further north, on the other hand, the extent of the pasto dulce does not seem to have altered appreciably.