Calarcá
Calarcá is a municipality in the eastern part of the department of Quindío, Colombia.
Calarcá is a municipality in the eastern part of the department of Quindío, Colombia. It is located 4 km east of the departmental capital Armenia. Its nickname is La Villa del Cacique in homage of its writers. The city was founded in 1886 by Segundo Henao and Román María Valencia during the time of colonization by people from Antioquia. It is the second most populated city in Quindío, after Armenia.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Calarcá
3 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.
- 01
- 02Quimbaya Gold Museum
Pre-Columbian archaeological museum about the Quimbaya culture in Armenia, Colombia
4.2 km · Wikipedia - 03
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.
Getting to Calarcá
- Airports
- Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 137 km · El Dorado (BOG), 168 km · Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 183 km
- Cali → Calarcá156 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · COL$33,000–44,000
- Bogota → Calarcá173 km · quickest by road, 6h 6m · COL$46,450–61,900
- Medellín → Calarcá191 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · COL$47,800–63,750
- 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 Calarcá
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 Calarcá. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCOP$28,000, 4 hours, Bus (Oct 2023) Bogotá: COP$40,000, 8 hours Medellín: COP$31,000, 6 hours Popayán: COP$31,000, 6 hours Manizales: COP$20,000, 2½ hours, every 15 minutes with a minibus Pereira: COP$9,000, 1 hour, every 15 minutes with a minibus (Oct 2023) Salento: COP$5,900, 30 min (Oct 2023)
From Wikivoyage: Armenia (Colombia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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If you know how people move in Calarcá – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Calarcá
Calarcá is 3 km from Armenia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.