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Bogotá
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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bogotá

10 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
    Gold Museum

    Pre-Columbian archaeology museum in Bogota, Colombia

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Estadio El Campín

    Football stadium

    4.1 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    National University of Colombia

    Colombian public university

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Senate of Colombia

    Upper house of the congress of the Republic of Colombia

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Primary Cathedral of Bogotá

    National monument of Colombia

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Monserrate

    Mountain in Bogota, Colombia

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    University of the Andes

    Private university in Colombia

    2 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Torre Colpatria

    Skyscraper in Bogotá

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Chamber of Representatives of Colombia

    Lower house of the Congress of Colombia

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Plaza de Bolívar

    Main square of the city of Bogota, capital of Colombia

    1.5 km · 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 Bogotá

Airports
El Dorado (BOG), 13 km · Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 228 km · Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 281 km
  • Medellín → Bogotá
    245 km · quickest by road, 9h 16m · COL$68,700–91,650
  • Cali → Bogotá
    301 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · COL$241,120–374,070
  • Cartagena → Bogotá
    662 km · quickest by air, 4h 26m · COL$285,170–442,210
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bogotá

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe TransMiCable inaugurated in 2018 is a gondola lift that takes passengers from the TransMilenio stop to in the Ciudad Bolivar district.
  • Get aroundColectivos cover practically every major route of the city, and can generally be flagged down at any point on a main road.
  • Go nextYou'll need a 4x4 vehicle or go by a tour.

From Wikivoyage: Bogotá, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    575 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,483 km
  3. 03
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,773 km
  4. 04
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,779 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,848 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bogotá

Bogotá is 7 km from Kennedy, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • La Candelarialocality of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia2.2 km
  • Teusaquillolocality of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia6.9 km
  • Chapinerolocality of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia4.5 km
  • Santa FeColombian locality of the Capital District of Bogotá600 m
  • Antonio Nariñolocality of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia3.4 km
  • Puente Arandalocality of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia2.8 km