1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Colombia
Compare this sourced profile of Montería, 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 Montería—490,935, 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: settlement in Colombia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Montería is GeoNames ID 3674453. Its recorded administrative path is Monteria → Cordoba → Colombia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Montería 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, Montería ranks 1,165 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Colombia entries it ranks 11; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 189. Its 490,935 population value is 0.69 times the 716,066 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 816,326 regional median. Montería sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Colombia entries. Montería's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Montería's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cartagena at 187.978 km with 914,552 recorded people; Barranquilla at 274.318 km with 1,206,319 recorded people; Medellín at 280.677 km with 1,999,979 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 92.699 km. Compared with Cartagena, Montería's recorded population is 0.54 times as large. Against Montería, Cartagena follows Cartagena de Indias → Bolivar → 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 Montería's. Against Montería, 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 Montería's. Against Montería, Medellín follows Medellin → Antioquia → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower 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 Montería's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 964 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Montería'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 3674453, the coordinate pair 8.7508 / 75.8782, country rank 11 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 3687238 at 187.978 km bind Montería to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Montería's reference point is 8.7508° north and 75.8782° 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. Montería's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Montería's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Montería's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Montería, 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
Montería's closest other entries in this atlas are Cartagena (187.978 km), Barranquilla (274.318 km), Medellín (280.677 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.