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Ambalema
Ambalema is a municipality and river port in northern Tolima, Colombia, on the Magdalena River, founded in 1627 and known for its 19th-century tobacco boom.
Armenia, Quindío Department
Armenia is a Colombian city and capital of the Quindío Department, founded on October 14, 1889. It is a central economic hub for the coffee axis.
Barrancabermeja
Barrancabermeja, also La Tora, is a district of Santander, Colombia, on the Magdalena River; founded 12 October 1536, municipality in 1922, home of Colombia's largest oil refinery and Ecopetrol's birthplace after the 1951 De Mares Reversión.
Bello
Bello, Antioquia, Colombia: municipality in the north of the Aburrá Valley, conurbated with Medellín, called the City of Artists, second most populous in the valley, municipality since 1913, site of the 2025 Granizal landslide.
Buga, Valle del Cauca
Buga, formally Guadalajara de Buga, is a colonial city in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and a pilgrimage site for its Basílica del Señor de los Milagros.
Cartago, Valle del Cauca
Cartago is a municipality in northern Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on the La Vieja and Cauca rivers, founded in 1540 by Jorge Robledo and moved in 1691.
Chía, Cundinamarca
Chía is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the Bogotá savanna just north of Bogotá, named for the Moon goddess of Muisca mythology, who had a temple there.
Cúcuta
Cúcuta (San José de Cúcuta), capital of Norte de Santander, Colombia, founded 1733 by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar; 777,101 inhabitants, sixth-largest municipality, main Colombia–Venezuela border crossing with 48,000–60,000 daily crossers and 51% of binational trade.
Dosquebradas
Dosquebradas, Risaralda, Colombia: industrial satellite municipality of Pereira in the Eje Cafetero, named for the Santa Teresita and Las Garzas streams. Founded 1844, municipality since 1972; about 225,540 people, 70.58 km², 1,460 m elevation.
Duitama
Duitama is a municipality in Boyacá, Colombia, named for the Muisca cacique Tundama, founded by the Spanish in 1602 and made a municipality in 1819 by Simón Bolívar.
Facatativá
Facatativá is a municipality in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, at the western end of the savanna of Bogotá, known for the Piedras del Tunjo archaeological park.
Floridablanca
Floridablanca is a municipality in Santander Department, Colombia, south of Bucaramanga in its metropolitan area. Founded as a parish in 1817, about 267,000 residents, 928 m elevation, known for obleas and rapid urban growth.
Funza
Funza is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the Bogotá savanna about 15 km from Bogotá and the site of Bacatá, the Muisca zipa's capital at the Spanish conquest in 1537.
Guaduas
Guaduas is a colonial town in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the old Camino Real northwest of Bogotá, best known as the birthplace of heroine Policarpa Salavarrieta.
Guatavita
Guatavita is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, about 45 km north of Bogotá, and the name of the sacred Muisca lake whose investiture ceremony inspired the legend of El Dorado.
Honda, Tolima
Honda, Tolima, is a Colombian municipality on the left bank of the Magdalena River, founded in 1539 and known as the obligatory colonial river port linking Cartagena and Bogotá.
Ibagué
Ibagué, capital of Colombia's Tolima department, is the "Musical Capital of Colombia," founded 14 October 1550 by Andrés López de Galarza at about 1,285 m altitude, hosting the Colombian Folkloric Festival since 1959 and the Conservatorio del Tolima.
Itagüí
Itagüí, Antioquia, Colombia: municipality in the southern Valle de Aburrá and member of the Aburrá Valley Metropolitan Area. Founded 1832 from Envigado; 19.6 km², ~300,000 people; known as Colombia's industrial city with 16,000+ companies.
Manizales
Manizales, capital of Colombia's Caldas department, founded 1849 by Antioqueño colonists at 2,150 m in the Coffee-Growers Axis; UNESCO Learning City (2019) and Creative City of Gastronomy (2025), known for coffee, steep terrain, and disaster risk management.
Mompox
Mompox, formally Santa Cruz de Mompox, is a colonial river port on the Magdalena River in Colombia's Bolívar Department, founded in the late 1530s and made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
Ocaña, Norte de Santander
Ocaña is a city and municipality in the Colombian department of Norte de Santander, founded in 1570 and known for hosting the Gran Convención of 1828.
Palmira, Valle del Cauca Department
Palmira, Valle del Cauca: Colombian municipality in the Cauca River valley, second city of the department, Agricultural Capital of Colombia, founded as Llanogrande (1680/1773), republican villa since 1824, sugarcane agroindustrial center.
Pereira
Pereira is a Colombian city founded in 1863 and named for Francisco Pereira Martínez. It is the capital of Risaralda, a commercial hub of the coffee-growing Eje Cafetero.
Ráquira
Ráquira is a municipality in Boyacá, Colombia, known nationally as the country's artisan capital for its pottery and ceramics, a tradition dating to the Muisca people.
Riohacha
Riohacha (Wayuunaiki: Süchiimma), capital of Colombia's La Guajira department and northernmost South American capital, founded 1545 as a pearl-trade settlement; 177,573 municipal inhabitants, semi-arid Caribbean port city.
San Gil
San Gil is a municipality in the department of Santander in northeastern Colombia, founded in 1689 and known nationally as the adventure-sports and tourist capital of Santander.
Sincelejo
Sincelejo, capital of Colombia's Sucre department in the Caribbean savanna, a livestock and trade city of about 314,000 people, founded as San Francisco de Asís de Sincelejo and refounded by Antonio de la Torre y Miranda in 1775.
Soacha
Soacha, a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, directly south of Bogotá; also called Soacha-Cundinamarca. Seventh most populous Colombian city, 808,288 census inhabitants, major migrant destination, TransMilenio corridor and Metro Line 3 terminus.
Socorro, Santander
Socorro, also written El Socorro, is a municipality and provincial capital in Santander, Colombia, the main seat of the 1781 Comunero insurrection and of the 1810 declaration of independence.
Sogamoso
Sogamoso, historically Suamox or Sugamuxi, is a city in Boyacá, Colombia, and the former religious capital of the Muisca, home to the Temple of the Sun.