Also known as the Pearl of the Ruiz, the capital of the department of Caldas the located in the center west of the country, inside the so called Triangle of gold, since he is in the heart of the three most important cities of Colombia: Bogota, Medellin and Cali; it does part of the coffee axis together with Armenia and Pereira, with an average temperature of 18°C and one approximate height of 2150 meters on the level of the sea.
Manizales us presents, as one of his attractions, the national park and of natural reserve The PARK OF THE SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS, which shares with other departments of the coffee axis, where we can find the Snow-capped mountain of the Ruiz with a height of 5.800 meters on the level of the sea, a high plateau that in company of the Thermal ones shows us the climatic diversity that offers us the city.
This beautiful territory receives the year with a great party, and is because of it that the first week of January lives through MANIZALES sensational FAIR, declared Cultural Patrimony of the Nation, presenting as principal attraction a great bullfighting party, which together with the music and the own gastronomy of the region, carries out the International Reign of the Coffee, a festivity with aroma of coffee and beauty.
