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FREE GENERAL INFORMATION TRANSIT AND TRANSPORT MUSEUMS LIBRARIES SEA MUSEUM 11L-7 TAXIS Museums in Bogotá are mostly opened from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day, although some 19M-7 BOGOTÁ CAPITAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA Calle 4 #22-61 Tel: 2427030 ext 3140-3142-1950. Located at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, ARCHIVE OF BOGOTÁ Calle 6 B # 5-75 Tel. 3813000 Bogotá has a good taxi service, all yellow. They can be approached on the street, but for close on certain days: 20 FOUNDED August 6th, 1538 by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada NATION’S GENERAL ARCHIVE Carrera 6 # 6-91 Tel. 3282888 M-7 safety, it is recommended requesting it by telephone, especially at night. Request the number (1) Closed on Mondays (2) Closed on Tuesdays (3)Closed on Sundays and holidays. it illustrates subjects related to marine life featuring various marine ecosystems. It displays H-5 LANGUAGE Spanish of the car sent and once the car arrives verify the information. Taxis must have on display a (4) Closed on Weekends. (5) Opened every day. skeletons of some species, aquariums with live sea urchins, lobsters and crabs. (3) VIRGILIO BARCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Av. Carrera 60 # 57-60 Tel. (571) 3158890 14 CURRENCY Colombian peso (COP) card with the identification of the driver and the vehicle, and the table of equivalent units NATIONAL POLICE HISTORICAL MUSEUM L-7 TINTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY Ciudad de Cali Av. # 6C-09 Tel. 379 3550 K-1 ALTITUDE 8661 ft. ASL (2.640 meters ASL) marking the meter rates. Calle 9 # 9-27 Tel: 2430840-2335911-2818581. It illustrates the historical evolution of the TUNAL PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY Calle 48B South # 21-13 Tel. 379 0000 N-4 ANTONIO NARIÑO HOUSE MUSEUM M-4 national police. It has information on codes, laws, uniforms, authority, badges, emblems and MEAN TEMPERATURE 38ºF ( 14ºC ) There are extra charges for any service after 8:00 p.m., Sundays, holidays and airport transfers. JULIO MARIO SANTO DOMINGO Av. Calle 170 # 67-51. Tel. 379 25 30 A-5 Several companies provide door-to-door service requested by telephone or through an Calle 10 South # 39-29 Tel:2030131-2128670. Fax: 571 7137911 others. It occupies a beautiful building of marked French influence. (1) CULTURAL CENTER AND PUBLIC LIBRARY POPULATION 8,081 million - 2017 22 21 application for mobile devices., Tappsi, Easy Taxi, TaxExpress and Taxis Libres or from the The Colonial Casona or house where Antonio Nariño, precursor of the independence, lived in SANTA CLARA MUSEUM L-7 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF COLOMBIA Calle 24 5-60 Tel. 381 6464 J-6 1803 and 1804. Located in La Milagrosa Hacienda in Montes city park. (5) Special Land Transportation Association www.acoltes.org Carrera 8 #8-91 Tel: 337 6762. It has one of the most harmonious architectural ensembles of LUIS ÁNGEL ARANGO LIBRARY Calle 11 #4-1 4 Tel. 3431224 L-7 MUSEUM OF INDEPENDENCE HOUSE OF THE FLOWER VASE 3L-7 the 17th century in the city with Mudéjar latticework, coered ceilings and altars that preserve RAFAEL POMBO CHILDREN’S LIBRARY Transversal 21 Bis # 59-41 Tel. 300 1251 22L-7 BIKE WAYS Carrera 7 # 11-28. Tel: 334 4150-336 0349. Houses the best collection of objects and a large collection of paintings, carvings, and altarpieces from the 16th, 17th and 18th STREET ADDRESSES M-5 On Sundays and holidays, from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., residents and visitors stroll and practice documents from the independence, as well as transcriptions and “Llorente's flower vase” which centuries. (1) CARLOS E. RESTREPO LIBRARY Transversal 21A No.19-54 sur-379 0164 I-6 Moving around in Bogotá is easy. The eastern hills of Monserrate and Guadalupe sports through the city's main streets. Cycling, skating, hiking, doing aerobics, and originated the independence movement formalized on July 20th, 1810. (1) MILITARY MUSEUM 15L-7 PUBLIC SPORTS LIBRARY Campín Stadium - L.9 Tel 379 0150 are the main point of reference: carreras (KR) run north and southbound parallel complementary activities, enjoying Bogotá's bike way. QUINTA OF BOLÍVAR HOUSE MUSEUM L-8 Calle 10 # 4-92 Tel: 2813086 - 2812548. It exhibits weapons, uniforms, documents and SEDI NATIONAL NEWSPAPER AND El Dorado Av. # 44 A-40 Tel. 244 5730 J-5 On the other hand, the city has more than 450 km of cycle paths located in main ways such to them, and their number increase from east to west. Calle 20 # 2-91. East. Tel: 2846819, 3366410, 3366419. items showing the evolution of the Colombian military forces through rooms dedicated to PERIODICALS LIBRARY as Carrera 30, El Dorado Av. , Calle 80, Carrera 7 and Park Way, making Bogotá, the city with Typical savannah country house from the early 19th century, a gift to Simón Bolívar in 1820 by the army, navy and air force. Models and especially the Vargas Marsh standout. (1) The calles (CL) are westbound and perpendicular to the hills and their numbers the longest route of Latinamerica. the Colombian government. The Liberator lived there for several seasons between 1820 and NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COLOMBIA K-7 increase from south to north. The transversales (TR) follow the direction of ‘PICO Y PLACA’ - CAR RESTRICTION 1830. It preserves furniture, costumes, weapons, documents and other objects that belonged Carrera 7a #28-66 Tel: 3816470. It is the oldest museum in the country created in 1823. It SHOPPING TOURISM carreras and the diagonales (DG) of the calles. Private vehicles (yellow license plate) cannot circulate on odd or even days, depending on the to him. (1) occupies what once was a panopticon and it exhibits more than 20.000 pieces among works 4L-7 ANDINO Carrera 11 # 82-71 G-7 The avenues are called (AK) when they correspond to a carrera and (AC) when last number of the license plate, odd or even, at the following times: from 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (MUSA) of art and representative objects of national history. (1) 7 13 ATLANTIS Calle 81 # 13- 05 23G-7 they correspond to a calle. Avenues can also be distinguished by name, for a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Therefore, all private vehicles Carrera 6 #7-43 Tel: 2431690 CULTURAL MANZANA OF THE BANK OF THE REPUBLIC L-7 L-7 Located in the House of the Marquis of Saint George, it’s an example of colonial residential (Botero Museum, Monstrance Hall, Art Collection and Numismatic Museum). BIMA 232-35 North highway can circulate between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and after 7:30 pm. These hours may vary in D-5 example, Avenida Ciudad de Quito. architecture from the late 17th century, it exhibits the most important collection of Cultural complex that exhibits works of art donated by the Colombian painter Fernando BULEVAR NlZA Carrera 52 # 125A- 59 some seasons. We suggest consulting accurate information in the media or the information G-7 pre-Colombian ceramics. (1) Botero, it includes 120 artworks of authorship and more than 60 pieces by world-renowned CENTRO 93 Carrera 15 # 93-60 contact number 195. www.movilidadbogota.gov.co 24N-4 LEOPOLDO ROTHER MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE J-6 artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. One of its halls has an important sample of the CENTRO MAYOR Carrera 27 # 38A-83 South G-7 Ciudad Universitaria. Cra 3o N° 45-03. Building 314 Oce 202.Tel: 3165000 ext. 12204. national artistic religious patrimony. It exhibits valuable colonial monstrance excelling "The CIUDAD TUNAL Calle 47B South # 248 - 33 USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS I-6 PARKS Located at the National University, it shows topics related to architecture in Colombia and its Lettuce" and the one from The Clarisses, as well as an important collection made up of works EL RETIRO Calle 82 # 11-75 H-7 EMERGENCY CALL LINE 123 PARK DISTRICT national and international developments. (3) Appointment only. by the most outstanding Colombian and Latin American artists, which covers a period from GALERÍAS Calle 53 # 25-21 68th Av. (Carrera), 53rd to 63rd Av.Tel: 6605400 H-7 I-5 DISTRICT INFORMATION 195 SIMÓN BOLÍVAR PARK COLONIAL MUSEUM 5L-7 the 16th century to modernity and a complete numismatic collection that shows the AVENIDA CHILE Calle 72 # 10-34 Calle 63 #45-10 Tel: 2217479 L-6 E-8 SPEAKING CLOCK 117 LOS NOVIOS PARK Carrera 6 #7-43 Tel: 2431690. An early 17th century house, once home of the Academy of evolution of currency in Colombia. Founded by order of King Philip II and expanded in the GRAN ESTACIÓN Calle 26 # 62-49 Calle 48B South, Carrera 19 Tel: 6605400 N-7 26 GENERAL INFORMATION 113 EL TUNAL PARK History and the National Library. First, headquarters of Javeriana University, and since then mid-17th century. (2) HACIENDA SANTA BÁRBARA Carrera 7 # 115-60 F-6 CAYETANO CAÑIZARES PARK Carrera 80 Nº 40 - 55 South Tel: 2992550 L-1 ISERRA 100 Suba Av. Calle 100 G-5 FIRE DEPARTMENT 119 known as Cloister of classrooms. Museum of Colonial Art since 1942, it exhibits works by GLASS MUSEUM N-7 Carrera 7, Calles 36th to 39th Tel:3112953792 N-1 26 RED CROSS 132 OLAYA HERRERA NATIONAL PARK important painters of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Vasquez de Arce and Ceballos, Los Carrera 1A # 6C-75 South Tel: 4646011- 3218801725. METRÓPOLIS Avenida carrera 68 # 75A- 50 K-7 Calle 26, Carreras 5th to 7th Tel: 3105980927 K-7 L-3 INDEPENDENCE PARK Figueroa, Antonio Acero de la Cruz and Francisco de Sandoval.