It is an extremely active harbour area with its coffee and sugar, banana exports. It is however the tourist activity which holds to with it the dominating place with Cartagena de Indias like capital, its beaches and its islands of holidays.

Founded in 1533 by Pedro de Heredia, Cartagena de Indias is built on the site of an old abandoned indigenous village. Its downtown area was declared world heritage by UNESCO in 1985.
Today, with its forts and its beautiful colonial buildings, the city peacefully defies each year a armada tourists in their offering his beauties, its atmosphere, and its distractions.
It appears important to mention that practically all the streets of the intramural city are interesting to traverse. The very many houses deprived with the colors pastel, with their beautiful balconies out of wooden, make of a dawdling in the streets pleasant discovered. … in order to make a jump of several centuries there. …
The intar-muros part of the city is relatively sure and, with the help of some precautions of use, it is not dangerous to walk there.
The district of El Centro and San Diego are without question the most interesting zones of the city. Preserved well and rich in architecture, they are surrounded by thick walls which do of it one of the rare strengthened cities of Americas.

SURROUNDINGS OF CARTAGENA

Castillo San Felipe de Barajas is the most important military construction of the colonial time ever carried out in America Latine.La visits the strong one offers very interesting points of view on the city and does not fail to impress by its size.

The islas del Rosario (islands of the Rosary), 26, has beautiful beaches white and splendid corals. According to the admirors of the marine animal-life, they are there the most beautiful islands of all the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
With more than three hours of road of Cartagena the countryside is splendid for Santiago de Tolú. Mountainous and green, it presents vain small farms, charming pueblos with houses pimpantes, painted in white with red roofs in curved tiles and patios furnished with wrought iron fence.

Santiogo de Tolú, is a village of fishermen converted into a tourist small station.