Cartago, Valle del Cauca Department, Pacific Region, Colombia

Overview | Education | Culture | Transport

🇨🇴 Cartago is a city in south-western Colombia, about 187 miles west of Bogotá. It is in the extreme northern portion of the Valle del Cauca Department. It is located very close to the city of Pereira, about a 20-minute drive. It is the fourth largest city in Valle after Cali, Palmira, and Tuluá.

Overview Cartago features warm weather, about 30 degrees Celsius (≈86 degrees Fahrenheit) or more on a typical day with 80% dryness. The city is home to multiple farmhouses and farm owners, recreational sites, discos and condos frequented by people coming from Pereira.

Education The University of Valle has a branch campus in Cartago. The main Universidad del Valle campus is based in Cali, the department capital. The Cartago branch campus address is located at Calle 10 N° 19–05. Private institutions include the Instituto Técnico Colombiano, INTEC Cartago and Sena Institute.

Culture Artesanías (handcrafted products) are sold in several roadside shop in the city.

An 1856 watercolor of a mestizo couple in a roadside shop by Manuel María Paz is an early depiction of Cartago. Afro Colombians also resided in the town at that time.

Festivals include: • Pedro Morales Pino Festival of Andean Colombian Music (Spanish: Festival de Música Andina Colombiana Pedro Morales Pino) (February 4-March 4)—commenced in 2013 on the occasion of Morales Pino's sesquicentennial, a prominent local Bandola virtuoso, and organized by the local conservatory that bears his name. • Feria de diseño independiente LAS PULGAS, organized by 3 VECES. (March and December) • Encuentro Nacional de las Familias que Cantan, organized by EL CONSERVATORIO PEDRO MORALES PINO (July).

Transport • Santa Ana Airport • Matecaña International Airport, serves the nearby city of Pereira • Cartago has an extensive network for taxis in the city, as well as minibuses (called busetas).

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Cartago has a population of over 135,000 people. Cartago also forms part of the wider Valle del Cauca department which has a population of over 4,475,886 people.

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Antipodal to Cartago is: 104.088,-4.747

Locations Near: Cartago -75.9121,4.74655

🇨🇴 Pereira -75.683,4.8 d: 26  

🇨🇴 Armenia -75.672,4.536 d: 35.4  

🇨🇴 Manizales -75.55,5.1 d: 56.2  

🇨🇴 Tuluá -76.197,4.084 d: 80.1  

🇨🇴 Ibagué -75.217,4.438 d: 84.3  

🇨🇴 Buga -76.302,3.9 d: 103.6  

🇨🇴 Quibdó -76.65,5.683 d: 132.4  

🇨🇴 Palmira -76.25,3.583 d: 134.7  

🇨🇴 Yumbo -76.495,3.583 d: 144.6  

🇨🇴 Santiago de Cali -76.532,3.452 d: 159.6  

Antipodal to: Cartago 104.088,-4.747

🇮🇩 Liwa 104.083,-5.033 d: 19983.2  

🇮🇩 Pringsewu 104.961,-5.356 d: 19897  

🇮🇩 Bandar Lampung 105.267,-5.45 d: 19862.9  

🇮🇩 Pangkalan Balai 104.41,-2.891 d: 19805.7  

🇮🇩 Palembang 104.733,-2.97 d: 19804.9  

🇮🇩 Bengkulu City 102.264,-3.792 d: 19786.7  

🇮🇩 Bengkulu 102.25,-3.783 d: 19784.9  

🇮🇩 Cilegon 106.011,-6.003 d: 19760.5  

🇮🇩 Serang 106.15,-6.117 d: 19740.7  

🇮🇩 Ciapus 106.467,-6.267 d: 19702.2  

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