1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Colombia
Compare this sourced profile of Bucaramanga, Colombia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bucaramanga—581,130, America/Bogota, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bucaramanga is GeoNames ID 3688465. Its recorded administrative path is Bucaramanga → Santander Department → Colombia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bucaramanga occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Bucaramanga ranks 958 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Colombia entries it ranks 8; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 156. Its 581,130 population value is 0.81 times the 716,066 median for the country cohort and 0.71 times the 816,326 regional median. Bucaramanga sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Colombia entries. Bucaramanga's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bucaramanga's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cúcuta at 110.236 km with 777,106 recorded people; Medellín at 287.989 km with 1,999,979 recorded people; Bogotá at 299.274 km with 7,674,366 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 189.038 km. Compared with Cúcuta, Bucaramanga's recorded population is 0.75 times as large. Against Bucaramanga, Cúcuta follows Cucuta → Norte de Santander Department → Colombia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Bucaramanga's. Against Bucaramanga, Medellín follows Medellin → Antioquia → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Bucaramanga's. Against Bucaramanga, Bogotá follows Bogota D.C. → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bucaramanga's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 733 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bucaramanga's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3688465, the coordinate pair 7.1250 / 73.1190, country rank 8 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 3685533 at 110.236 km bind Bucaramanga to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bucaramanga's reference point is 7.1250° north and 73.1190° west. The IANA identifier America/Bogota is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Bucaramanga's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bucaramanga's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bucaramanga's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bucaramanga, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bucaramanga's closest other entries in this atlas are Cúcuta (110.236 km), Medellín (287.989 km), Bogotá (299.274 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.