Travel to South America

Copa Navidad (Christmas Cup)

Each December, Bogota hosts a sporting competition that brings together a good variety of sports, including a few quirky ones. The competition includes weightlifting and bowling, plus possibly basketball, hockey and others. Past competitions have also included swimming with fins and underwater hockey. (Underwater sports are Spanish and Colombian favorites, apparently.) You never know just what you'll find at the 'Christmas Cup,' but the unexpected is a good bet.

ANATO Tourism Showcase

The Colombian Association of Travel Agencies (ANATO), hosts this annual fair, where various national and international travel companies come together to provide information on travel, recreation and culture in Colombia and the rest of the world. Here tourists as well as tourism professionals can find everything they need to know to plan stellar vacations, business trips and events for themselves or their clients.

Golf Tournament

Torneo Internacional and Torneo Nacional de Damas Senior de Golf (Senior Ladies National Golf Tournament), will take place the first week of September at Club Los Lagartos. These events for low handicap are organized by the Federacion Colombiana de Golf (Fedegolf).It is an open tournament so if you are touring Colombia and happens to be a Golf fan go on and play!

Epiphany/Dia de Reyes

This national holiday marks the end of the long Christmas season in Colombia. By tradition, this is the day on which the three kings discovered baby Jesus. On this day, children reenact bible stories surrounding the event on the balconies of the Parroquia de Nuestra Se de Egipto. It is a day of festivity with processions and dancing in the streets.

Expofertas

If you like shopping for bargains in a cheerful atmosphere, you will love this fair. Running annually from late February into early March, this commercial free-for-all brings manufacturing companies, merchants and distributors together with the public for sales, specials and demonstrations. The exhibit space is divided by product category, with areas devoted to decor and linens, clothing and accessories, furniture, health, beauty, electronics, music, and shoes and leather goods. Banking services (including ATM), food services and long distance telephones are available.

XIX Festival de Cine de Bogota

It was founded in 1984 to showcase Colombia filmmaking, the festival first expanded to include films from other Latin American countries and then films from around the world. The emphasis remains on Colombia and other underrepresented countries, however, making this a good place to see films beyond the mainstream.

Salon Internacional de Automovil

Colombians purchase hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cars and car parts annually. Trying to carve out shares of that market, automotive manufacturers from the USA, Germany, Japan, France and around the world display their new model lines and automotive equipment here at CORFERIAS, Bogota's large exhibition site. The futuristic concept cars alone make this show an amusing diversion even for those who doesn't know how to drive!

Festival de Porras

The most creative Bogotano athletic teams compete in various preliminary events to qualify for the Festival Distrital. Each group is evaluated for rhythmic, gymnastic, acrobatic and artistic movements, coordination and uniformity, as well as choreography. The competition is carried out in three phases at the Sistema Distrital de Parques facilities: in June at the local facilities; in August at the regional facilities and in October at the state facilities.

Copa Colsanitas WTA Tennis Tournament

Held once a year in late February, this professional clay-court tournament brings top-quality women's tennis to Bogota. Started in 1993 as an ITF women's circuit event, the tournament became a Sanex WTA Tour stop in 1998, the first of its kind in Latin America. The 2,500-seat stadium at the Academia Colombiana de Tenis has ample free parking for spectators, security services, and a restaurant.

Bogota Fashion Week

This exhibition, organised by FENALCO Bogotá, takes place every year at CORFERIAS, bringing together the main brand og the fashion world. Exhibits consist of clothes and accessories, for the general public and for businesses. There are also catwalk shows, with the presence of renowned local and international designers.