1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Colombia
Compare this sourced profile of Cartagena, 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 Cartagena—914,552, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: place in Columbia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cartagena is GeoNames ID 3687238. Its recorded administrative path is Cartagena de Indias → Bolivar → Colombia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Cartagena 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, Cartagena ranks 602 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Colombia entries it ranks 5; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 84. Its 914,552 population value is 1.28 times the 716,066 median for the country cohort and 1.12 times the 816,326 regional median. Cartagena sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Colombia population cohort. Cartagena's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Cartagena's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Barranquilla at 100.371 km with 1,206,319 recorded people; Santa Marta at 169.884 km with 499,192 recorded people; Montería at 187.978 km with 490,935 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 87.607 km. Compared with Barranquilla, Cartagena's recorded population is 0.76 times as large. Against Cartagena, Barranquilla follows Barranquilla → Atlantico → 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 Cartagena's. Against Cartagena, Santa Marta follows Santa Marta → Magdalena 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 Cartagena's. Against Cartagena, Montería follows Monteria → Cordoba → 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 below Cartagena's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 701 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cartagena'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 3687238, the coordinate pair 10.3982 / 75.4933, country rank 5 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 3689147 at 100.371 km bind Cartagena to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cartagena's reference point is 10.3982° north and 75.4933° 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. Cartagena's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Cartagena's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cartagena's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cartagena, 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
Cartagena's closest other entries in this atlas are Barranquilla (100.371 km), Santa Marta (169.884 km), Montería (187.978 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.