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Leticia

Travel Guide South America Colombia Leticia

Introduction

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Leticia is the capital of the Amazonas department in the extreme southeast of Colombia and has around 33,000 inhabitants. The city can only be reached by plane and borders Tabatinga in Brazil.

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Neighbourhoods

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Sights and Activities

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Events and Festivals

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Weather

Leticia has a tropical rainforest climate with hot and humid conditions year round. Temperatures are around 31-32 °C during the day and 21-22 °C at night. Rain is possible in every month, though is lowest in July and August (just over 100mm a month) and highest from January to May (around 200mm a month).

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Getting There

By Plane

Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport (LET) offers flights to/from Bogota and several smaller towns like Araracuara, La Chorrera, La Pedrera and Tarapacá. There are seasonal flights to both Iquitos and Pucallpa in Peru.

Tabatinga International Airport has flights with TRIP to Manaus, always via Tefé. Some TRIP flights might make additional stops at the towns of Carauari and Coari.

There are sometimes flights from the Peruvian town of Santa Rosa to Iquitos, with small 15-seaters.

By Train

By Car

By Bus

By Boat

Brazil
Although not from Leticia itself, there are connections by boat from nearby Tabatinga. Slow boats to Manaus leave from the Porto Fluvial on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday afternoons, usually around 2:00pm or so, with a stop at Benjamin Constant. Sometimes there are extra boats, so it's worth asking. Arrive in the morning to stake out good hammock space, as boats can be quite crowded. The trip to Manaus takes three days and four nights and costs around US$65 if you bring your own hammock, or around US$240 for two people in a double cabin. Food is included, but you're best advised to bring snacks and bottled water. Traveling upstream from Manaus to Tabatinga, the trip usually takes six days, and costs about US$110 in your hammock or US$330 for a double cabin.

Speedboats operated by AJATO (Porto Manaus Moderna 3622 6047, 9984 9091, Tabatinga 3412 2227; 8:00am-5:00pm Monday to Friday, 8:00am-noon Saturday) leave Tabatinga for Manaus (R$360, 31 hours) once a week, generally in the morning. The boats have airplane-style seating and TVs playing movies, and good meals are included. To get to Tefé, take a Manaus-bound slow boat to Fonte Boa or Jutaí, and transfer to a regional boat that enters Tefé proper. AJATO has a once weekly speedboat service to Tefé (R$300, 20 hours).

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Transtur runs high-speed boats between Tabatinga and Iquitos. Boats leave from Tabatinga's Porto da Feira at 4:00am Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and arrive in Iquitos about 10 hours later. The boats call at Santa Rosa's immigration post in Peru. The journey costs US$60 in either direction, including breakfast and lunch. Don't forget to get an exit stamp in your passport from at Leticia's airport the day before departure. Note that from Iquitos there are no onward overland connections. You have to fly or continue by river to Pucallpa (five to seven days), from where you can go overland to Lima and other places.

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Getting Around

By Car

By Public Transport

By Foot

You can easily walk around Leticia and cross into Brazil as well.

By Bike

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Eat

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Drink

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Sleep

Property	Address	Type	Popularity
Albergue Tacana	Comunidad Multietnica de Tacana KM11	Guesthouse	76
Hotel Amazon Bed & Breakfast	Calle 12 nr 9-30, centro	Guesthouse	84
Mahatu Leticia Hostel	Calle 7 Carrera 1- Numero 40 Leticia - Amazonas	Hostel	89
La Jangada Hospedaje	Carrera 9, No 8-106	Hostel	100
Casa Del Kurupira - Selvaventura	Carrera 9 No 6- 85, 8	Guesthouse	85
Omshanty	Via Leticia-Tarapac¡ km 11	Hostel	70

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Work

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Learn

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Keep Connected

Internet

Phone

Post

4-72 is the unusual name of Colombia's postal service. They have post offices throughout the country, which are open usually from 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday and sometimes on Saturday mornings as well. That doesn't apply to all offices though, only the larger ones in the big cities. But for example along the Caribbean coast, offices tend to close between noon and 2:00pm. But even at the ones that are officially open all day long, it might be difficult to get anything done during those hours. For domestic services, sending letters and postcards is mostly reliable but takes days, for international services don't hold your breath. Eventually, a postcard or letter might arrive in the country of destination but it's almost not worth it. For parcels, you are better off using companies like FedEx, DHL or UPS.

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