The Department of the Quindío, earth full with tradition, landscapes and green multicolored, privileged corner of Colombia, is definitively a tourist destination of quality for its visitors, the best in its nature that can offer this beautiful country. Limit to the north with that of Risaralda, to the east with Tolima, to the south with the Valley of the Cauca, and to the west again with the Valley of Cauca.

Quindío, Colombian department of natural charm and tourist amenity, the andes where the visitor will be able to meet with countless options for his distraction. The valley of Cocora, cradle of the national tree, the Palm of Wax; the traditional architecture of their populations, the development urbanístico of their capital, or their thematic park, National Parks of the Coffee and Panaca.

Quindío is for excellence the green region of Colombia–among coffees, guamos, roses and guaduales–and it emerges as the most splendid of the landscapes that exist to exalt the nature and the human values. It is a sanctuary of natural flora where they grow more than twelve thousand vegetable, properly classified and preserved species. Under the backdrop of so magnificent flora, it is surrendered tribute to the coffee, the guadua, the flora and a lifetime wild, pillar of the Colombian economy and hábitat of more than 380 species of birds that give immense coloring to the landscape.

Dared colonists crossed the mountain ranges Westerner and Central of Colombia, to be located in their hillsides in it offers of the progress and development of the region that, after a hundred years, it is the capital of the department of the Quindío. This city, founded by Jesús María Ocampo in 1889, it is known as the “Ciudad Milagro”. Among their main attractiveness they are the Immaculate Cathedral, the Quimbaya Museum, the Square of Bolivar, the Park of the Life and the Parque Fundadores. For the lovers of the landscapes, Armenian offers the opportunity to appreciate, from The Mirador of the Quindío, the majestuosidad of the Central mountain range a Colombian andes.
From where it is looked, the department erects with pride its properties, inns and roads; everything impregnated of green, green nature. Because in the Quindío, the modernity, with all its apparent symptoms, didn't kill the essence of the past completely. Almost all their twelve municipalities conserve the social and architectural expression of the culture paisa.

Museum
Quimbaya
Armenia:

It is a tribute of the Bank of the Republic to the culture Quimbaya, which takes their name proudly. Designed by architect Rogelio Salmona, it was inaugurated in 1986 and that same year it received the National Prize of the Biennial one of Architecture (1986-87).

The visitor will observe more than 2.000 goldwork pieces and ceramic with elements of the archaeological area Quimbaya (Caldas, Quindío, Risaralda and north of the Valley of the Cauca). In the Museum of the Gold you will find Infantile Room, Center of Regional Documentation, outdoors of Conferences, Room of Exhibitions and theater.

Open:
Of Monday to Friday of 10:00 a.m. at 6:00 p.m.
Saturdays of 9:00 a.m. at 1:00 p.m.

Salento is the oldest municipality in the Quindío, with typical architecture of the settlers antioquenos. The palm of wax–declared national tree of Colombia–it will be able to be admired in the valley of Cocora that is part of the natural reservation of Acaime, where it is a great flora variety and fauna. The ten kilometers of open highway that lead from Salento to the valley of Cocora run parallel with flowing of the crystalline waters of the river Quindío. Cocora is a valley in soft decline, located to 2.000 meters high. Their temperature average is of 15 centigrade degrees.

They are two the world superlatives that it shows this plant: it is the palm that grows to the biggest height on the level of the sea of the planet in the first place (3.000 meters), and, in second place, it is the palm but high of the world (it can end up elevating their trunk until the seventy meters, equivalent height to that of a building of twenty floors).

Taking like base Salento, or even Armenian, it can visit the valley in one day. The trout plate is of having forced tasting.

In the municipality of Quimbaya it is the National Park of the Agricultural Culture that understands interact park. It is a great thematic park in which will be able to interactuar and to enjoy to the maximum with the beauty of the life in the field. Among other attractions enjoy of the world of the cattle raising, of the poultry keeping, of the porcicultura, the friendly world of the dog, the curious world of the sericulture and the spectacular world of the horse.

In a natural scenario with variety of cultivations, beautiful landscapes, architecture autochthonous and different attractions in each station. The attraction of Panaca resides in the man's interactividad with the nature, since this visit is the perfect conjugation of tourism, recreation, education, commercialization and the use of appropriate technologies for each case.

Located in the municipality of Montenegro, it allows to know the traditions and the coffee culture. With a tropical climate of 26 centigrade degrees and forty hectares of the most exciting Colombian flora. Their main attractiveness are: the tower mirador–with 18 meters high and built in mangle and guadua. From there you will be able to contemplate the municipalities of Armenian, Montenegro, The Tebaida, Buenavista and Córdoba; the Pueblito Quindiano that recreates the typical architecture of the coffee towns; a replica of the station of the railroad of Armenian–(republican construction that dates of 1926)–; the Rural House and the Bridge of Arriería–fundamental in the development of the regions colonized in the Colombian occident at the end of the XIX century.

Botanical garden of the Quindío an the mariposario in Calarcá: 

Located in the municipality of Montenegro, it allows to know the traditions and the coffee culture. With a tropical climate of 26 centigrade degrees and forty hectares of the most exciting Colombian flora. Their main attractiveness are: the tower mirador–with 18 meters high and built in mangle and guadua. From there you will be able to contemplate the municipalities of Armenian, Montenegro, The Tebaida, Buenavista and Córdoba; the Pueblito Quindiano that recreates the typical architecture of the coffee towns; a replica of the station of the railroad of Armenian–(republican construction that dates of 1926)–; the Rural House and the Bridge of Arriería–fundamental in the development of the regions colonized in the Colombian occident at the end of the XIX century.