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Locality of Bogotá in Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Tunjuelito

Tunjuelito is the 6th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital, Bogotá.

Tunjuelito
Tunjuelito · Felipe Restrepo Acosta
The place

Tunjuelito is the 6th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital, Bogotá. Tunjuelito is located in the south of Bogotá, bordering to the north with the localities of Bosa, Kennedy and Puente Aranda, to the east with the localities of Rafael Uribe Uribe and Usme, to the south with Usme and to the west with Ciudad Bolívar. This district is mostly inhabited by working and lower class residents.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tunjuelito

2 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
    Centro Mayor

    Centro Mayor is a shopping mall located in the south of Bogotá, Colombia. It was inaugurated on March 26, 2010.

    1.4 km · shopping mall in Bogotá, Colombia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Public library Biblioteca Pública El Tunal Gabriel García Márquez

    The Gabriel García Márquez - El Tunal Public Library, is a library located in the Tunal Park in the south of Bogotá, Colombia. It was designed by architects Suely Vargas Nóbrega, Manuel Antonio Guerrero and Marcia Wanderley and was inaugurated on May 10, 2001, forming part of the BibloRed Network of Public Libraries, and receives approximately 4,000 people of different ages daily.

    1.2 km · library in Colombia · 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 Tunjuelito

Airports
El Dorado (BOG), 13 km · Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 227 km · Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 275 km
  • Medellín → Tunjuelito
    246 km · quickest by road, 9h 31m · COL$70,100–93,450
  • Cali → Tunjuelito
    293 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · COL$248,920–386,220
  • Cartagena → Tunjuelito
    667 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · COL$292,970–454,360
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tunjuelito

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 Tunjuelito. 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

    574 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,480 km
  3. 03
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,778 km
  4. 04
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,785 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,854 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tunjuelito

Tunjuelito is 4 km from Kennedy, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.