SANTIAGO DE CALI

CALI

CALI THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD

Cali is the capital of the department of Valle del Cauca and the third most populous city in Colombia.

Cali celebrates this year 477 years of being founded by Sebastian belalcazar is the third oldest city.
Cali is the capital of the department of Valle de Cauca, and the third largest city of the Republic of Colombia. Cali was founded in 1536, makes it one of the oldest cities in Latin America. The city itself has had a rapid growth of its population since 1930, most of the residents are from the Cauca Valley, who have decided to leave behind crops incorporated into urban life. One of the characteristics of its population is mostly young. The estimated population of the city is 2 million 450 thousand inhabitants.

important places

Santiago de Cali offers, both for tourists and for its citizens, a great deal in terms of recreation and tourism, ranging from heritage sites to spaces for daytime fun and nocturna.El city center still retains many original buildings from the time of its foundation, making it very attractive to its visitantes.Algunos of the most visited places are: the Christ of Cali, Cali river, La Ermita church and Avenida Colombia, among others.

OUT OF CALI

tourist sites you can visit outside Cali and ecotourism can be real estate reeds fat, Farallones de Cali national park.

FARALLONES DE CALI NATIONAL PARK

There are variety of animals from small bats to pumas, ocelots, foxes and spectacled bears. Also excel marsupials, five species of primates: capuchin monkey, red monkey, bun, or kinkajou marteja and marimonda. Also there anteaters, parrots light, squirrels, eagles, and other rock cockerels sixty species of aves.La temperature is about 25 ° C at the bottom and 5 ° C in the tops. Their ecosystems: rainforest, rainforest, cloud forest and paramo.

CHURCHES AND TEMPLES CALI

sights that can be visited as churches and temples as the chapel of San Antonio, home Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter, the religious complex mercy convent of San Joaquin, San Fracisco church, Santa Rosa lima English church the shrine, temple of the Immaculate Virgin, temple San Fernando Rey.

MONUMENTS AND STATUES OF CALI

sights that can be visited Belalcázar statue, La Negra's Chontaduro, Monument to Antonio Galán, Benito Juarez Monument, Monumento a Cristo Rey, Jorge Isaac Monument, Monument to children.