Vichada Network

Welcome to the Tourism Council of Puerto Carreño and Vichada (public/private/ngo/gov consortium) located on the western bank of the Orinoco River in Puerto Carreño. We are the most remote (easternmost) municipality of a department in Colombia at the end of Route 40), the municipality is named after the capital city (seat) Puerto Carreño in the Colombian Department of Vichada:

"The Land of People for People without Land."  

• 2023 Vichada became a Tax-Exempt Tourism Investment Haven inviting Non Taxable Investments that offset climate change that are both ecological and sustainable. (Lots of projects have emerged.) 

We encourage and recommend that all seasoned backpackers, explorers, fisherman, travellers, tourists and visitors to join our global/local association prior to arrival in order to gain access to a wide-range of special benefits, discounts, products, services and travel options during your stay. The Tourism Council is being developed to better serve the needs of visitors as well as represent the people that accommodate and serve visitors once they arrive. Our everchanging and ever-growing website(s) connect(s) visitors with over 3,000 tourist activities that are available locally. We connect our tourists with the industry! 

The Vichada Tourism Council is part of the Puerto Carreño Tourism Authority, which is owned and operated by the cooperative stakeholders, local business members, honorary members of the consortium and registered visitors within the context of our objectives and purposes. Everyone benefits in our tourism destination as we grow. 

Between 2023-2025, eco-tourism will take over all other economic activities in the Vichada Department and the Orinoco Watershed (Orinoco Valley); there is a great focus on Puerto Carreño serving appropriate hospitality and tourism services hub for tourists to choose from 100's of options throughout Vichada, and of course we encourage tourists to stay at least a night or two on arrival and before departure; we will have a taxi there for you, we do not want our visitors to go home empty handed or forget about the good time they had visiting. 

Vichada Network (Adventure All-Around)

The Colombian State (Department) of Vichada is the second-largest department and the most remote eastern outpost in Colombia; the large area and low population also means it is the last place on the priority list of the government's funding ladder; therefore locally we need to depend on ourselves and the interests of visitors that make their way here. Our focus is on general ecological tourism and international adventure tourism combined with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and the World Tourism Organization gives us a functional working agenda with clearly defined goals to meet as an organization of members.

The Vichada Network aims to connect the resources from 41 national parks, approximately 100 hotel and resort properties, 300 providers of services and ecological reserves from 4 municipalities: Puerto Carreño (capital), Santa Rosalia, La Primavera, and Cumaribo (Indigenous territories and Biosphere). In 2023 our website becomes diversified with increased security to meet the demands of tourists and our members as investors. The Vichada Network is the only regional .net website (network) that is 100% secure using Google Workspace, Cloud Identity, WhatsApp for Business and Workplace by Meta. 

Our First Year 2023

Our council is being developed as an autonomous international civil society and authoritative compliance body that implements best practices in tourism among those we represent to help to ensure tourists have access to their rights and a grievance system to promote better tourism experiences and improve local tourism policies and standards. Our chamber is bicameral inasmuch as it is developed to serve the needs of both tourists and tourism industry protagonists with an unremunerated board of directors. In the months of March and April of 2023 our field assessment survey interviewed over 100 businesses that depend on 20% or more of their economic revenue from tourism, all were consensual with the idea of establishing a tourism council for the region, (30% of the participants interviewed were from other parts of Vichada) justifying extending the scope to a regional tourism council. The new ideas being discussed by members of the community here are all feasible and practical, the only thing missing are the resources and the volume of tourism the area needs to become sustainable.