The country is directly linked to major North American and European cities with daily flights to New York, Miami Mexico City, Madrid, Paris, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Panama, and many others. There is a direct flight to Los Angeles four days a week. Principal airlines including American Airlines, Iberia, Air France, and Lufthansa fly directly to Bogotá, some of them to Cartagena, Barranquilla and Medellín. Avianca, Colombia’s major airline also handles international flights to Miami, New York, Los Angeles, among others.

Over 20 international passenger airlines operate inside Colombia; international flights to Colombia have doubled in the past 7 years.

Currently there are 555 international flights from and to Colombia every week, a relatively large number for the region if one considers that only 363 international flights operate in and out of Peru every week.

Colombia’s main airports are: Nuevo Dorado located in the city of Bogotá; Ernesto Cortissoz, 7 kilometers outside the city of Barranquilla; Palmaseca, 18 km. outside Cali; Crespo in the city of Cartagena; and Riosucio 45 kilometers outside Medellín.

A variety of local airlines such as Avianca, Aero República, Satena and Easy Fly connect the Colombian provinces.  There are a total of 73 airports, none of them further than a two-hour flight from the capital of Bogotá.

A number of private companies specialize in helicopter and small plane services throughout the country.

The entire country is linked through a system of highways and roads, except extremely remote regions such as the Amazon jungle and certain parts of the Chocó and Great Plains regions.

A number of companies provide overland transportation for passengers (buses, micro-buses, etc.) to nearly every corner of the country.  Major cities have bus terminals that centralize passenger services.

National and international companies such as Hertz Rent-a-Car, Colombia Rent-a-Car, Andes Auto Rental and ABC Rent-a-Car provide rent-a-car services to the principal regions.

Taxis are available in all major cities, serving the immediate urban perimeter and the different regions.

There is no rail service except for freight, which exists only in certain regions.

River travel is very limited in the middle of the country, except for a stretch of the Magdalena River between Puerto Berrío and the Caribbean coast, and almost all of the Atrato River in the Chocó province. Other large rivers such as the Orinoquia and the Amazon are navigable and river travel is practically the only available form of transportation in these areas where villages are few and far between and very removed from the country’s urban centers.

In the capital of the Amazonia department, river travel is the main form of transportation.  Several companies specializing in local transportation serve this region.