Dosquebradas
Dosquebradas is the second largest city and a municipality in the Risaralda Department, Colombia.
Dosquebradas is the second largest city and a municipality in the Risaralda Department, Colombia. As of 2023, with a population of approximately 225,540 inhabitants. The city is connected by the César Gaviria Trujillo Viaduct to Pereira, the capital of the department.
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Worth seeing in and around Dosquebradas
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.
- 01César Gaviria Trujillo Viaduct
The César Gaviria Trujillo Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge connecting the neighbouring cities of Pereira and Dosquebradas in Risaralda, Colombia. It is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in South America and, at the time of its completion in 1997, ranked 20th in the world.[1] The bridge has a total length of 440 metres, including a central span of 211 metres.
1.8 km · cable-stayed bridge · Wikipedia - 02Technological University of Pereira
The Technological University of Pereira is a national public research university in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. The university is located in the southeast of the city.
4.3 km · public research university in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia · Wikipedia - 03Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Pobreza
The Our Lady of Poverty Cathedral, also called Pereira Cathedral, is the cathedral church of Catholic worship in the city of Pereira, capital of Risaralda department in Colombia. The cathedral is dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Poverty.
2.5 km · Cathedral of Our Lady of Poverty (Pereira) · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dosquebradas
- Airports
- Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 151 km · Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 163 km · El Dorado (BOG), 171 km
- Medellín → Dosquebradas157 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · COL$39,450–52,600
- Cali → Dosquebradas183 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · COL$37,250–49,650
- Bogota → Dosquebradas178 km · quickest by road, 7h 23m · COL$54,600–72,800
- 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 Dosquebradas
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 Dosquebradas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Dosquebradas – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Dosquebradas
Dosquebradas is 2 km from Pereira, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Pereiracity in Colombia and capital of the Risaralda department2.5 km