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Los Mártires

Los Mártires is the 14th locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia.

Los Mártires
Los Mártires · Diego Delso
The place

Los Mártires is the 14th locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is located near the city's downtown to its west. This district is mostly inhabited by lower middle and working class residents. It takes its name in honor of those who died during the war for independence from Spain. It is completely urbanized, save for its parks and the banks of its rivers.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Los Mártires

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

    The Museum of Gold is an archaeology museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the most visited tourist highlights in the country.

    2 km · pre-Columbian archaeology museum in Bogota, Colombia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National University of Colombia

    The National University of Colombia is a national public research university in Colombia, with general campuses in Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira, and satellite campuses in Leticia, San Andrés, Arauca, Tumaco, and La Paz, Cesar. Established in 1867 by an act of the Congress of Colombia, it is one of the largest universities in the country, with more than 53,000 students.

    3.6 km · Colombian public university · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Monserrate

    Monserrate is a mountain over 3,000 metres high that overlooks the city center of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. It rises to 3,152 meters above the sea level, where there is a church with a shrine, devoted to El Señor Caído.

    3.7 km · mountain in Bogota, Colombia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    University of the Andes

    The University of the Andes, also commonly self-styled as Uniandes, is a private research university located in the city centre of Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948 by a group of Colombian intellectuals led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, it was the first Colombian university established as nonsectarian.

    2.7 km · private university in Colombia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Senate of Colombia

    The Senate of the Republic of Colombia is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the Chamber of Representatives. The Senate has 103 members elected for concurrent four-year terms.

    1.7 km · upper house of the congress of the Republic of Colombia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Primary Cathedral of Bogotá

    The Metropolitan and Primate Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception and Saint Peter of Bogotá or better known as the Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Bogotá and Primate of Colombia, officially Sacred Holy Temple Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica and Primate of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and Saint Peter, is a cathedral church of Catholic worship consecrated to the Immaculate Conception and under the patronage of Saint Peter; it is a Neoclassical style building located in the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, the country's capital. The cathedral is the seat of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá and Primate of Colombia, recognized with the honorary title of Primate of Colombia by Pope Leo XIII, through the Decree of the Consistorial Congregation of November 7, 1902.

    1.8 km · national monument of Colombia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Torre Colpatria

    The Torre Colpatria is a 50-story skyscraper in the downtown area of Bogotá, Colombia. It is the fourth tallest building in the country.

    2.3 km · skyscraper in Bogotá · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Chamber of Representatives of Colombia

    The Chamber of Representatives is the lower house of the Congress of Colombia. It has 183 members elected to four-year terms.

    1.6 km · lower house of the Congress of Colombia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Plaza de Bolívar

    The Bolívar Square is the main square of the Colombian capital Bogotá. The square, previously called Plaza Mayor until 1821 and Plaza de la Constitución, is located in the heart of the historical area of the city and hosts a statue of Simón Bolívar, sculpted in 1846 by the Italian Pietro Tenerani, which was the first public monument in the city.

    1.7 km · main square of the city of Bogota, capital of Colombia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Colombian National Museum

    The National Museum of Colombia is the National Museum of Colombia housing collections on its history, art, culture. Located in the Santa Fe locality of Bogotá, Colombia, it is the largest and oldest museum in Colombia.

    2.7 km · national museum · 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 Los Mártires

Airports
El Dorado (BOG), 13 km · Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 228 km · Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 280 km
  • Medellín → Los Mártires
    24 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · COL$5,950–7,950
  • Cali → Los Mártires
    300 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · COL$242,170–375,770
  • Cartagena → Los Mártires
    7 km · quickest by road, 26 min · COL$1,360–1,810
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Los Mártires

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundSome of the roads outside Bogota are quite basic and 4WD can be an advantage.

From Wikivoyage: Cundinamarca, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

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

    1,774 km
  4. 04
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,780 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,849 km

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

Around it

Next door to Los Mártires

Los Mártires is 1 km from Bogotá, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.