Buenaventura
Buenaventura is a coastal seaport city located in the Pacific Region of the department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

Buenaventura is a coastal seaport city located in the Pacific Region of the department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Buenaventura is the main port of Colombia in the Pacific Ocean.
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Worth seeing in and around Buenaventura
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of the Pacific
The University of the Pacific is a public, national university based primarily in the city of Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The university also has several satellite campuses across the Pacific/Chocó natural region in the cities of Guapi in the Cauca Department and Tumaco in the Nariño Department.
4.5 km · university in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Buenaventura
- Airports
- Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 81 km
- Stations
- Gerardo Tobar López Airport, 7.6 km
- Cali → Buenaventura56 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · COL$16,500–22,000
- Medellín → Buenaventura336 km · quickest by air, 7h 21m · COL$318,250–489,030
- Bogota → Buenaventura343 km · quickest by air, 7h 4m · COL$298,420–458,120
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Buenaventura
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Buenaventura. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe docks for cargo boats are on the way in to town.
From Wikivoyage: Buenaventura, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.
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