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MAYOR OF ARMENIA CITY ARMENIA, QUINDÍO - COLOMBIA
PLAZA DE LA QUINDIANIDAD / ARMENIA, QUINDÍO - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
PARQUE SUCRE / ARMENIA, QUINDĂ?O - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
a magical region to
travel, live and do business
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a place of
friendly people Armenia, capital of the department of QuindĂo is a destination with a coffee aroma and a magic that can only be enjoyed while being there. It is part of the Coffee Region and for that reason it has become a must visit destination for those who want to know better the Colombian culture in general, so much so that in 2011 UNESCO declared the Colombian Coffee Cultural Landscape a World Heritage Site.
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A Coffee flavor destination We are located 290 kilometers west of Bogotå. A medium-sized city located in the Golden Triangle, and being one of the main commercial and tourist centers, not only of the Paisa region, but also of the Colombian west in general. The population of Armenia is 292,008 people and was founded in 1889. Today, Armenia is best known for its coffee and flowers and has been recognized as a city with great influence in South America due to its variety in both aspects. The city is located in the most important coffee region of Colombia, with a fairly uniform temperature throughout the year, ranging from a minimum of 17 ° C to a maximum of 27 ° C. The city is in the UTC -5 time zone and the official language is Spanish, but there is also a variety of languages that make it easier for tourists to stay in the city. The currency is the Colombian peso.
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a growing
Paradise
Armenia offers countless tourist attractions from a natural, cultural and scientific point of view. The coffee culture, its architecture and the hospitality of its people, makes traveling QuindĂo an unforgettable experience.
The city has a total area of the municipality amounting to 12,241 hectares, with 2,357 (19.25%) urban area and 9,884 hectares (80.75%) in the rural area. In its political division it has 10 communes, a rural sector (El Caimo) and 18 pathway. ARMENIA, QUINDĂ?O - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
Armenia
a place to invest
The commercial activities of Armenia are supported mainly in trade, agriculture, the provision of goods and services and in tourism. The QuindĂo capital operates as a center for the collection of all the agricultural production that occurs in the surrounding fields. Foods such as bananas, fruit trees and avocados stand out. It should be noted that the commercialization and industrialization of specialty coffee is one of the fundamental lines in economic development; in the same way, the hotel and the transport sector, because of the tourist importance and the geographical location of Armenia that serves as a link between some of the major national cities.
ARMENIA, QUINDĂ?O - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
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Opportunities
to invest
Armenia, capital of the department, is the city No. 1 with the lowest tax burden for companies, No. 1 in number of tax payments per year and No. 2 with greater facilities to open a company. Likewise, the Doing Business report of the World Bank, places Armenia in the Top 10 of the cities of Colombia where it is easier to do business. The real estate sector is in full growth due to the boom in the construction of buildings with both commercial and residential uses. Which offers a high profitability as a result of the valuation and the income from the annual rent. Today in the QuindĂo there is a growing preference and trend towards a tourism based on Ecotourism, Adventure Tourism, Well-being Tourism, Experience Tourism and Conventions Tourism. ARMENIA, QUINDĂ?O - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
A Culture
that you will fall in love with
Armenia is a city that grows and modernizes, but in which the quiet life of the town is still noticeable. Because the rural areas are very close and because in the customs and the treatment of their people goes the feeling of the Paisa inheritance. Inheritance that has to do with work, kindness and enjoyment of good coffee prepared in the midst of pleasant gatherings. There is a great deal of familiarity and cordiality among Armenians or Cuyabros, the most common local for the people of Armenia. Many of those same people who were born and raised in the city, have contributed to its economic and tourist consolidation, because they feel respect and affinity for the environment.
PHOTOGRAPHY - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
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Festivities
of Armenia from October 1 to 14
In Armenia the harmonious manifestations are appreciable in daily life, or mainly in October in times when the city sets up for celebration on the occasion of the anniversary of Armenia, when for several days different events are held including many events about Quindian culture. In honor of the peasant coffee gatherers, during the festivities of Armenia the Chapolera beauty contest takes place. The parade of the Yipao is organized in recognition of the most groomed and most loaded Willys whose origin was given in this city and gradually has been appropriated by several departmental municipalities.
PHOTOGRAPHY - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
a unique
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Gastronomic pleasure
Armenia shares many gastronomic similarities with the departments colonized by settlers AntioqueĂąos, Vallunos and other near cities. The Mazamorra made of corn or the Aguapanela and cheese are typical drinks. The corn Arepa is the culinary manifestation that Armenians choose, the BuĂąuelos, the Pandebonos, Empanadas and Sudado MontaĂąero are other preferred options when it comes to choose.
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we are
Tourist hub
In Armenia you will find culture and tradition. Among coffee plantations and beautiful sunsets tourists will be able to find the place of their dreams to take a rest. In QuindĂo the amusement Parks offer a unique experience to locals and visitors.
Cielos Abiertos Shopping Center Cielos Abiertos Shopping Center, is a walking environment that connects the northern sector of the city with the downtown area of the city. It was achieved with the pedestrianization of the Carrera 14 from Calle 12 to Calle 22.
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Museo del Oro Quimbaya Located in the north of the city, it offers visitors an excellent assembly of its archaeological collection corresponding to the pre-Hispanic area of the Middle Cauca. The Museum, designed by the architect Rogelio Salmona, is the National Architecture Prize of the 1986-87 Biennial and has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest of the Nation.
Mirador de la 19 o de la Secreta The great Ecological Park La Secreta, constituted by the Armenian geological fault, goes from the Carrera 18 to the QuindĂo river, crossing the city from the south to the center being a reserve of fauna and flora typical of the city.
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Touristic Attractions
Barranquismo It is a local sculptural technique on a land that bulge out onto a space from a terrace ravine created by Efrén Fernández Barón, a worker from the municipality with great qualities and an enormous sculptural vocation. In this ravine the artist with Palín y Regatón in hands, is making figures, almost all characteristics of the pre-Columbian cultures, which he then covers with cement and sand passed by water. What was once an indigenous form of expression is today an important landmark of urban art in Armenia.
Estación del Ferrocarril The old railway station was built between 1927 and 1930 to house the administration, archives, statistics, offices and warehouses of the National Railways of Colombia, Ferrocarril del Pacífico, branches Armenia-Cali-Buenaventura and Armenia-Nacederos. It is preserved in 90% of its original construction. In its main rooms the capitals, the doors and windows constructed in wrought iron stand out. The decoration of its floors, especially in the main entrance.
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Murales Painting and engraving in wood and cement are some of the techniques and elements used by several artists of Quindío to make some places of Armenia resemble permanent galleries open to all. Henry Villada Tamayo is one of the artists that has made more contributions to the city in this area.
Valle del Cocora It is a natural landscape located in a mountainous valley of the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes, specifically in the department of Quindío, making part of the Los Nevados National Park. It is the main home of the national tree of Colombia, the Quindío wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense), as well as a great variety of flora and fauna.
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Touristic Attractions
Parque Nacional del CafĂŠ It is a Colombian theme park located in Pueblo Tapao, municipality of Montenegro in QuindĂo, Colombia. It has two cable cars, shows, world coffee garden, three roller coasters, food stalls based on coffee, Colombian folk architecture, and others, totaling 40 attractions that are divided into: mechanical, aquatic and thematic of the region.
PANACA A park that has an amazing path surrounded by nature, which will take you through 10 spectacular stations where you will find more than 4,500 animals with which you can play, interact and even feed them. During the tour you will visit the Livestock Stations, Minor Species, Ostriches, Porcine, Feline, Integral Farm, Canine, Agronomy and finally the majestic Equine Station.
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Plaza de Toros BullRing (Plaza de Toros) The Plaza de Toros El Bosque is located in the Park El Bosque. It has a traditional Spanish style painted with red and white colors. This ring has a capacity for 7.000 people and also, it is often used for artistic varied shows. Fit: approximately 9000 people
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Coliseo del CafĂŠ Coffee Coliseum (Coliseo del Cafe) The Coliseo del Cafe, a sport scenario with modern design in the shape of a coffee grain, surrounded with a bland zone of grass, flowers and trees. It has a capacity for 9.000 people and it is the scenario for tournaments of basketball, volleyball, ping pong and cheerleading.
Fit: approximately 9000 people
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Estadio Centenario
Centenario Stadium
In so far as infrastructure, the city counts with the Centenario Stadium, one of the most modern stadiums of Colombia. Built in 1988. It is known as The Garden of America. It is located in the south, over the Avenue 18 road to Cali. It is one of the points of reference of the city, it was sub venue for Copa America 2001, venue of the Southamerican Championship sub-20 of 2005 and venue of the World Cup of soccer sub league-20 of 2011. It is the city of the professional soccer team of the region Deportes Quindio, currently on the First B category; and counts with a capacity of 25 thousand people. Fit: approximately 20716 people
PHOTOGRAPHY - Courtesy: Carlos Humberto Hurtado Granada (Pintaito)
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CONNECTIVITY Armenia is a city with doors open to anyone who wants to enjoy its landscapes from the air and its mountains by land. A land that harbors the desire to live, vacation or make a stop for business in a magical place full of tradition. To the Capital of el Quindio arrive roads that links the Department of El Tolima, Risaralda , and Valle del Cauca. Roads like highway of coffee that connects El Eje Cafetero with the roads from Bogota and Cali, makes and adequate infrastructure to the terrestrial access. For the users of public transportation Armenia counts with a bus terminal where many routes of Colombia converge to. Separated 18km to the west, Tebaida, the airport El Eden operates domestic flights from Easy Fly and Avianca airlines that cover the journey from Bogota in approximately 40 minutes, while the company Ada has flights from Medellin. Also, Spirit airlines was authorized to operate from the United States to Armenia.
Centro Cultural
Metropolitano de Convenciones
Metropolitan Cultural Center of Conventions The Metropolitan Center of Conventions is perfect for your event or your trip incentives. Here you will find enclosure for big events and modest reunions, gifted with the best technology and an infrastructure with services of excellent quality that will allow you to choose the scenario for your congress or events that best adjust to your needs. Fit: approximately 1200 people
- 9 Rooms - 1 Lobby
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Hotel Armenia
Armenia
Hotel
The Hotel Armenia is located in an exclusive strategic area in the city of Armenia, near the health area, financial ethnicities, malls, The Metropolitan Cultural Center of Conventions of the city and contiguous El Parque de la Vida. A green lung in the center of the city. It’s modern architecture is combined with the authentic furniture designed in bamboo, moreover pieces precolombinas of the Quimbaya culture that decorate our wide spaces and characterize us. Fit: approximately 1200 people - 10 Rooms - 1 Lobby - 129 Bedrooms
Hotel
Mocawa Plaza Hotel Mocawa Plaza The Hotel Mocawa Plaza is an icon of reference to the excellence in hospitality in the city of Armenia, located in the center of the city, between he complex mall and habitable Mocawa, offers nice rooms that deliver the hospitality and magic of the land of coffee. Fit: 97 Bedrooms - 1
Lobby - 2 Rooms
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Hotel Boutique
ISA VICTORY
Fit: 24 Bedrooms - 1 Lobby - 1 Room
Hotel Montes
DE LA CASTELLANA
Fit: 15 Bedrooms - 1 Lobby
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Hotel
VICTORIA’S PARK
Fit: 24 Bedrooms - 1 Lobby
Hotel
PORTAL DEL NORTE
Fit: 17 Bedrooms - 1 Lobby
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Centro Comercial
UNICENTRO UNICENTRO mall The Unicentro Mall Armenia, was built with the goal of offering shopping, entertainment and fun, that is why today it is considered to be the most visited mall in the city for its attractiveness and benefits it has to offer, with approximately 14.000 visitors on a daily basis. It is the only friendly mall with the environment that the department of Quindio has, since it counts with bio climate air systems, recirculating of water in its sources, and two extensive vertical gardens that makes Unicentro a innovative mall. It counts with approximately 40.000 square meters, two levels of basements, 420 parking spaces, easy access to pedastrians and vehĂcules due to its strategic location in the main road of the city of Armenia.
Centro Comercial
Portal del QuindĂo PORTAL DEL QUINDĂ?O mall Portal del Quindio is located in the north of the city, it is to feel the essence from a city ambience of the Coffee Cultural Landscape with all its splendidness. Spacious internal hallways, well known stores where you will find items of fashion, sports, shoe wear, jewelry, accessories and more! No need to subtract the external zone, a recent work that leaves uncovered the natural beauties of the Quindio. In its interior, you will find a spacious food court, magnificent coffee experiences, resting zones just for chatting or waiting, a dome which enables the direct entry of the sun light and even a large clock that accompanies the minutes as you enjoy your time at this place.
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Centro Comercial
CALIMA CALIMA mall
Sitting down in the food court of the Calima Mall in Armenia, is not only pleasing for the flavors that seduce the tastebuds, also the direct relationship that is created with the landscape, mountains of diverse green tones that stand right in front to create sensations and admirability. Roaming results to be pleasing and tranquil. The mall has and interesting scale of stores, especial places to enjoy a great coffee, medical health centers, beauty centers and an area of entertainment for both adults and kids. Located in one of the areas of large urbanĂsm development in the city. It is spacious, comfortable, inviting to walk, to have a nice evening with friends or family and enjoy all the moments and activities programmed.
Transport
in the City The public transportation of buses guarantees the mobility of the people to every point of the city. On the other hand, there are companies that rent cars to those travelers that wish to travel on their own or that want to go to closer destinations. The airport El Eden has offices with the companies that provide these services to anyone interested.
6 taxi companies: 1743 vehicles Multiple bus companies 8 special transport companies
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Adventure
Activities
Nature
Activities
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Mountain
Bikes Routes El Quindio, a paradise to travel by bike having in mind the topographical conditions of the Quindio Department and it’s high mountain, this becomes a dream destination for mountain bike lovers. More than 100 routes, by which you can find mythical ascents like the Top of the Line, The castle, La Cola del Zorro, the antenas in the municipality of Calarca, El Calvario, La Patasola en Salento , make Quindio and ideal territory to enjoy and roam it in bicycle. The routes of mountain biking in the middle of vegetation that characterizes the Coffee Cultural Landscape; trails, lakes, mountains and valleys can be found marked and traced by the natural majestic composition, of shapes, landscapes and colors that are abundant in our region.
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Bird observatory With over 10.000 species of birds of the planet, Colombia has registered 1.912, which means that we are the country with largest diversity of bird species in the planet and that approximately of every five birds of the world, one is present in our territory (Audubon, 2016). More than half of the Colombian birds, close to 900 have their habitat in the andina regiĂłn. 170 of them corresponding to 34 families are reported in our Botanical Garden. It is an amazing number, to which we have a great view from three special places: a house in the middle of the forest. A tower of 22 meters of height and the “ballet of hummingbirdsâ€?. Also, they have been identified 10 migratory species in the garden. All the tours start in the first hours of the morning and end at 6:00 pm. Approximately, the starting time may vary depending on the destination. The capacity for groups is of 1 to 6 people.
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JEEP TOURS Live a different experience wandering in a conditioned Jeep with high chairs viewing the streets of Armenia, Colombia. In this tour you will get to know the Plaza de Bolivar, considered for tourists or for locals, the main meeting point; the Quimbaya Museum where the story of the Quimbayans is narrated, the people who inhabited the region prior to the arrival of the Spanish, through and exhibition of the archeological pieces in gold and other materials and The Park of Life, on of the biggest of the city which has large gardens, lakes and trails that all together form a relaxing space to walk in.
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