Cali is known as the capital of salsa music and dancing in Colombia. It has developed a culture centered around partying, recreation, and enjoying life alongside nature. Cali is the third largest city in Colombia and a major economic hub, with beautiful sites, great nightlife, and attractions that make it popular with tourists. Some of Cali's iconic sites include parks along the Cauca River where people gather on Sundays, as well as historic monuments honoring figures like writer Jorge Isaacs. The city has a tropical climate and is located in a strategic spot connecting to ports and other regions.

1. CALI -COLOMBIA
Cali's feet do not walk, just dance…¡¡¡
Presented by : Alba Johanna Guevara Niño

2.  Cali is distinguished as the capital of Colombia "rumba", street
parties, dancing and salsa. Cali have developed a playful and
hedonistic culture in harmony with the natural surroundings
and country life.
 Cali is a city of wide open spaces for tourism and recreation.
The capital of the Valle del Cauca is the third largest city in
Colombia, and it abounds in beautiful women, heritage sites
and spaces for daytime and nightlife that make it a tourist
mecca. Cali is one of the major economic and industrial
centers of the country and the main urban, economic,
industrial and agricultural center in southwestern Colombia

3. Sundays, worship Cali rivers. They
move en masse to bathe in the cold
currents coming down from the hills,
particularly in the Pance River. Who
walks upstream reaches camp
Fundación Farallones, where shelter
and guidance for the Park
Cali and Valle del Cauca are identified
by their traditional cuisine, a cuisine
that fuses the Spanish, indigenous and
African heritage, giving a unique
flavor. Thus born the chicken stew, the
atollado rice, tortilla soup, and
tamales.
Moreover, its sugarcane valleys
originated a variety of sweets as
snacks, blancmange, jelly, coconut
candies and shampoos, drink made
with corn, pineapple pulp, pineapple
chunks, cinnamon and brown sugar
molasses

4. WEATHER
The climate is equatorial tropical Cali. The Western Cordillera
blocks fronts moist air from the Pacific, preventing these cool
town. The average temperature is 26 ° C with an average
minimum of 19 ° C and an average maximum 34 ° C. The dry
season runs from December to March and July to August and the
rainy season from April to June.

5. Altitude
1003 meters above the sea.
Location:
Cali is located on the west bank of the Cauca
River. The city is guarded on the west by the
Farallones de Cali are part of the Western
Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. It is in a
strategic location: it connects to the port of
Buenaventura on the Pacific coast and the
industrial northeast Yumbo center.
Airport:
Cai has one of Colombia's main airports, the
Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport
(CLO), located in the municipality of the city
of Palmira, fifteen minutes north of the city.
The airport has one runway three thousand
meters. It is the second airport in passenger
mobility in Colombia and fourth load

6. RELIGIOUS AND COLONIAL MUSEUM OF
SAN FRANCISCO:
Located on 9th Street No
5-59. Is in charge of the
Franciscan community,
working since 1940 with
350 pieces of religious
art and decorative arts,
as a picture that lives up
to the novel by Jorge
Isaac "La María".

7. MONUMENT TO JORGE ISAAC:
In 1920, a group from Cali ladies
and bugueñas moved by the
reading of the play "Mary" decided
to make a tribute to the writer of
the play Jorge Isaacs, promoting
the creation of a monument in his
honor, they contacted the poets
Ricardo Nieto, Carlos Villafane,
Scarpetta Blas Alberto and Maria
Carvajal, to discuss the idea and
so did the work, which was given
to the Catalan sculptor Carlos A.
Perea, who recreates the literary
work on a sculpture artistically
sculpted in marble Ephraim and
Mary reading the book of poems
by Atala, the dog Mayo, the fateful
black Ave and bust of the writer
Isaacs on top: Carrara, where the
actors appear.

8. RETRETA PARK
Located on the left bank of the
River Cali and the right side of
the Puente Ortíz. We make a
wide green area with walkways,
benches and lighting
Neoclassical French style kiosk
replica of that existed in the
Plaza de Cayzedo until 1936 to
remember the old band
concerts or musical
presentations to the local band
every Sunday. This monument
was donated by the Bank of the
West as a tribute to the city in
its 450 year anniversary.

9. Cali smells and tastes like salsa. In the
Valle del Cauca you do not find bad people,
they are all friendly and nice. The
landscapes of this city are beautiful.
You fall in love with Cali…¡¡