page_title: Quindío Department
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Quindío Department / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: Parque Nacional del Café
context_page_description: Quindío is a department of Colombia. It is in the western central region of the country, crossed by the Andes mountains. Its capital is Armenia. It is famous for the quality of the coffee plantations, colorful architecture, benign weather, variety of hotel accommodations and tourist landmarks. This department is located in a strategic area, in the center of the triangle formed by the three main cities of the country: Bogotá, Medellín and Cali. Quindío is the second-smallest Colombian department with 12 municipalities. Ethnographically and culturally it belongs to the Paisa region.
context_section_description: Quimbaya museum
  Colombian National Coffee Park
  PANACA park
  Cocora Valley
  El Mariposario (Butterfly vivarium)
  National Bamboo and Guadua Investigation Center
  Peñas Blancas
  Nevado del Quindío
caption: Coffee museum in Colombian National Coffee Park
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