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Pereira

Pereira
Pereira · Roman Eisele Crop suggested by W.carter, thank you! (CC BY-SA 4.0)
What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pereira

4 places 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
    Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas

    Football stadium

    6.4 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    César Gaviria Trujillo Viaduct

    Cable-stayed bridge

    1.1 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Technological University of Pereira

    Public research university in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

    2.3 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Pobreza

    Cathedral of Our Lady of Poverty (Pereira)

    100 m · 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 Pereira

Airports
Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 153 km · Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 161 km · El Dorado (BOG), 172 km
Stations
Matecaña International Airport, 4.9 km
  • Medellín → Pereira
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · COL$39,950–53,300
    GuideToday
  • Cali → Pereira
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · COL$36,550–48,750
    GuideToday
  • Bogota → Pereira
    180 km · quickest by road, 7h 20m · COL$54,100–72,100
    GuideToday
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pereira

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 Pereira. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inCali: COP$29,000, 4 hours Bogotá: COP$50,000, 9 hours Medellín: COP$33,000, 6 hours Manizales: COP$16,000, 1 hr 15 min every 15 minutes with a minibus (Oct 2023) Armenia: COP$9,000, 1 hour every 15 minutes with a minibus (Oct 2023) Santa Rosa de Cabal: COP$5,000, 15 min.
  • Get aroundTypes of buses range from large buses to smaller vans, and Wilys jeeps are also available for side trips to outlying areas including local mountains and valley floors (prices vary depending on destination but generally are very cheap).

From Wikivoyage: Pereira, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    462 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,321 km
  3. 03
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,853 km
  4. 04
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,933 km
  5. 05
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,953 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pereira

Pereira is 31 km from Armenia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • DosquebradasColombian municipality of the department of Risaralda3.2 km
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