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Municipality and city in Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia

Buenaventura

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

Buenaventura
Buenaventura · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    University 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Buenaventura

Airports
Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 81 km
Stations
Gerardo Tobar López Airport, 7.6 km
  • Cali → Buenaventura
    56 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · COL$16,500–22,000
  • Medellín → Buenaventura
    336 km · quickest by air, 7h 21m · COL$318,250–489,030
  • Bogota → Buenaventura
    343 km · quickest by air, 7h 4m · COL$298,420–458,120
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    530 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,271 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,952 km
  4. 04
    OllantaytamboPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,976 km
  5. 05
    HuacachinaPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,002 km

If you know how people move in Buenaventura – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.