The Cauca Valley is one of the country’s most beautiful, extensive and fertile regions.  This region cuts across the Cauca Valley from the southwest to the northeast.  The region’s exuberant vegetation, enormous old trees (ceibas, caobos, chiminangos, etc.), bushes and flowers make it an earthly paradise resembling the rolling plains of Africa.

Fruit and coffee crops dot the mountainsides, which together with sorghum and sugarcane have made the Cauca Valley department one of the country’s richest.  This territory is also used for cattle ranching.

Cali is the capital of the Cauca Valley department, and the most important city in western Colombia with close to 2 million inhabitants.  It is located in the far southwestern part of the great Cauca River valley.  Other major cities in the region include Palmira, Buga and Tulua, important agricultural and ranching centers.

Near Cali stand the famous Farallones -- huge stone mountains towering over 3,000 meters (9,800 feet).  Countless rivers and streams tumble down from the upper valley through abundant vegetation, providing a home to endless species of birds and small animals.

There are large farms throughout the region, some of them with beautiful restored colonial homes with stunning gardens and spacious stone courtyards.

Since the 1960s, Cali has had an active filmmaking community out of which many talented fiction, documentary and television directors have emerged as well as successful theater and audiovisual producers.  The Universidad del Valle has an excellent film department.

Cali’s regional channel, Telepacífico, covers the Valle del Cauca, Nariño, Cauca and Choco departments.  A university channel also operates out of the Universidad del Valle. Cali enjoys good film, television and advertising production infrastructure as well as audio and video post-production services.

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Is an industrial city and an important cultural center. It’s famous for its joyful inhabitants, white and black in fairly equal proportion, and for its beautiful women, great salsa (Caribbean music with roots in New York), countless dancehalls and academies, and the carnival and bullfighting season at the end of each year.

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The National Palace, San Antonio chapel, the Ermita church, Caicedo Plaza, Jorge Isaacs Theater, Municipal Theater, Monument to Sebastián de Belalcazar, Zoo, Sugarcane Park

Nearby: Los Farallones National Park, Pance River, Lake Calima, sugarcane fields, towns of Palmira, Buga and Yumbo

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Oficina de Turismo Cali
Telephone: 885.88.55
Website: caliturismo.com