Colombia’s coffee-growing region launched its first website Wednesday to draw more attention to the region’s tourism possibilities. According to export and tourism promoter Proexport, the website “will allow the region…
Colombia will invest $140,000 (COP260 million) to develop a park in the Coffee Region designed to exhibit the importance of water resources. The venue, proposed by local mayor Jorge Ricardo…
The Cocora Valley, high in the Andes and surrounded by mountain peaks, was named a wildlife sanctuary in 1985 by then-President Belisario Betancur, to prevent exploitation of the wax palm,…
Manizales is preparing for the city’s 2010 International Theater Festival which will run from October 26 to November 1, featuring 35 theater companies from Spain, Colombia, and countries across Latin…
Heavy metal fans from all over the world are expected to attend the fifth annual Grita Rock festival in Manizales, in the central Colombian department of Caldas. Fresh from the recent…
Explore Colombia’s “paramo,” a high-altitude grassland in the coffee region whose flora and fauna look like something out of a sci-fi novel.
Tourists wishing to visit the central Colombian coffee growing department of Risaralda will be able to do so more safely in the coming months, with a scheme to run police-escorted…
Balconies, beams and a colorful paint palette will be the aesthetic of a new replica-colonial-village being built in Salento, a municipality in the central Colombian department of Quindio, as an…
Experimental digital music and video art will be taking over Colombia’s coffee lands as the 9th International Image Festival comes to Manizales. From April 13 until April 17 the city’s…