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Municipality and town in Caldas Department, Colombia

Villamaría

Villamaría is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas.

Villamaría
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The place

Villamaría is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas. Located in the Colombian coffee growing axis, it was made part of the "Coffee Cultural Landscape" UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Villamaría

Airports
Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 130 km · El Dorado (BOG), 154 km · Alfonso Bonilla Aragon (CLO), 189 km
Stations
La Nubia Airport, 5.3 km
  • Medellín → Villamaría
    134 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · COL$37,750–50,350
  • Bogota → Villamaría
    166 km · quickest by road, 6h 33m · COL$50,000–66,700
  • Cali → Villamaría
    211 km · quickest by road, 5h 4m · COL$45,750–61,000
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Villamaría

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inis a modern facility next to the lower cable car station.
  • Get inThe cable car can take you to the city centre for COP$2300 (great views).
  • Get inColectivos to Chinchiná cost COP$7300 per person and take about 40 minutes (May 2026).
  • Get inCali: COP$30,000, 5 hours Bogotá: COP$77,000, 8 hours (Expresso Bolivariano) Medellín: COP$38,000, 5 hours Pereira: COP$12,000 (May 2026), 1 hr 15 min every 15 minutes with a minibus Armenia: COP$17,000, 2 hr 15 min every 15 minutes with a minibus Some common bus companies in Colombia that are found in this Terminal are: Expreso Bolivariano Expreso Bolivariano- This company has one of the most extensive networks.
  • Get aroundBy cable car There are two operating cable-car lines, both meeting at the main bus station.

From Wikivoyage: Manizales, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    453 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,327 km
  3. 03
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,824 km
  4. 04
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,904 km
  5. 05
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,929 km

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Around it

Next door to Villamaría

Villamaría is 7 km from Manizales, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.