1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Colombia
Compare this sourced profile of Cali, 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 Cali—2,392,877, 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 Cali is GeoNames ID 3687925. Its recorded administrative path is Cali → Valle del Cauca Department → Colombia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cali 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, Cali ranks 160 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Colombia entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 19. Its 2,392,877 population value is 3.34 times the 716,066 median for the country cohort and 2.93 times the 816,326 regional median. Cali falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Colombia population cohort. Cali's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Cali's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ibagué at 183.95 km with 529,635 recorded people; Soacha at 285.62 km with 655,025 recorded people; Bogotá at 300.547 km with 7,674,366 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 116.597 km. Compared with Ibagué, Cali's recorded population is 4.52 times as large. Against Cali, Ibagué follows Ibague → Tolima 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 below Cali's. Against Cali, Soacha follows Soacha → Cundinamarca → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Cali's. Against Cali, Bogotá follows Bogota D.C. → 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 capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Cali's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 957 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cali'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 3687925, the coordinate pair 3.4305 / 76.5199, country rank 2 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 3680656 at 183.95 km bind Cali to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cali's reference point is 3.4305° north and 76.5199° 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. Cali's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cali's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cali's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cali, 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
Cali's closest other entries in this atlas are Ibagué (183.95 km), Soacha (285.62 km), Bogotá (300.547 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.