Important facts of Providence and Santa Catalina islands

Providencia Island Colombian Caribbean * Area: 22 square kilometers.

* Population: 5 thousand inhabitants, distributed in 12 neighborhoods.

* Languages: Native English and Spanish.

* Currency: Colombian peso.

* Weather: Warm of between 25 and 28 centigrade degrees.
Dry weather: From January to April;
Humid weather: October and November.

* Religions: Catholic, Baptist and Adventists. There are 6 Catholic churches.

* Economic activities: Agriculture, cattle raising, fishes and tourism.

* Education: 8 educational centers, of which one is high school.

* Marine fauna: Their barrier underwater is of 32 kilometers of longitude and it's has a biodiversity comparable with that of the basin of the Amazon rainforest.

* Meeting places: Convention Center in the center of the region with capacity for 100 people and the Culture House with capacity for 80 people.

Facts of interest

* To come in to Providencia the tourist need to buys in the origin airport the "Card to the island entrance". Their value is $13 dollars.

* The travel agencies of Bogota they have plans toward Providencia class all included with prices from $400 dollars.

Insular gastronomy

* Fish salmagundi: Cooked fish and crumbled, taken a bath in coconut milk. It goes accompanied by white rice, fried potato and tomato, onion and cucumber salad.

* Dinner gourmet:
Open: Crab molars.
Hard plate: Fish skewers, with white rice and salad. Guanabana (tropical fruit) juice.

This eddy, so unknown for so many Colombians, it revives now like one of the tourist destinations more attractive thanks to that the Decameron Group presented its support initiative to the island through the affiliation of five hotels.

The network will give support to the commercial and operative activities of the affiliated hotels facilitating its promotion and sale at national and international level.

The five linked hotels are: Cabins Relax, Inn of the Sea, Cabins Miss Elma, Cabins Miss Mary and Cabins Aguadulce that stand out for their typical architecture and Caribbean environment.

Recovery of the tourist sector

These hotels will continue being assisted by their proprietors and they will receive the permanent operative support of the organization of Hotels Decameron. This way it will be possible to conjugate the personalized attention of these typical lodgings, with the international experience of Decameron, network that today operates more than 4500 rooms in the international environment.

Le Levant Cruise "Like integral part of this initiative, we to give in the national and international markets the attractive tourist offer of the Island of Providence, which stands out for their immense natural and cultural wealth", said Lucio García Mansilla, president of the Decameron Hotels Group. With an investment of more than a thousand million pesos in this project, with which is hoped to reactivate the economic development of this important tourist area of the country, Hotels Decameron will implement a system of on-line reservations.

Likewise, it will take charge of the promotion, the advertising and the one assembles of packages that will include lodging, feeding, air transport, transfers, rates and on-rates, and all the options to enjoy to fullness of this paradise.

The success of Decameron is evidenced in its expansion in grateful tourist destinations as Port Vallarta (Mexico), Montego, Panama, San Andrés, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Leticia (Amazon rainforest), El Salvador.

They are more than 17 hotel options in five countries, full with sun, beach and fun.

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Important facts of Providence and Santa Catalina islands

Facts of interest

Insular gastronomy

Recovery of the tourist sector