San Gil, the turistic capital of Santander, doesn’t have an airport, but it is located really near to Bucaramanga, the capital of Santander which counts with an airport that lets travel to national places.
There are different transportation companies to travel on the road. If you need to travel to a far place, you can use Berlinas, Copetran, Expreso Brasilia, Concorde, Omega and Autoboy.
If you want to travel to a near place, you can use Cotrasangil, Cotrafonce or Cootraguanenta (Intramunicipal).
In San Gil there are many ways to arrive to a place, you can take a bus or a taxi, but for foreign people is easy and cheaper to take a bus, so let’s see the routes, the buses companies, the prices and the time tables.
Cotrasangil is a transportation company to Bucaramanga, Barranca, Aguachica and other towns. It is the main transportation company in San Gil, which is frequently going to the “provincia guanentina”, which is conformed by Mogotes, Ocamonte, Curití, Charalá, Barichara etc.
Cotrasangil has 55 buses of service around the city, they are in excellent status, all of them are new and if not, they are renovated. They have the itinerary of these routes: San Gil – Bucaramanga, San Gil – Socorro, San Gil – Barrancabermeja, San Gil – Aguachica since 4:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.
Telephones
Shipments San Gil 7240866-7242611–3182854605
Terminal San Gil 7243434-7245788-3182854606
Terminal San Gil 7243434-7245788-3182854606
Shipments Bucaramanga 6304721-6304730-3182804147
Terminal Bucaramanga 6397776-6377768–3182804164
To go to the Little towns, there are 75 vehicles like microbus, vans and buses. They are located in the National Parking Lot (Cra. 11 Cll 15 Corner).
The little towns near by are:
Mogotes
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Ocamonte
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Cabrera
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Curití
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Charalá
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Aratoca
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Barichara
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Valle de San José
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Páramo
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Villanueva
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To be in contact with this parking lot, there are the next telephones:
7242155 – 317-4325200
Urban Transportation
Cotrasangil has 124 urban cars, they are in perfect conditions, the most of them are new. Contrasangil offes the services by means of the radio central.
To contact them: 7243333, 7241111, 7247000, 3182818213
Cotrasangil has 40 little buses which have the next routes:
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COTRASANGIL:
( http:// cotrasangil.com/ ) Carrera 11 No. 5 - 74
phones: 7243562 - 7243432 - 7249442
Individual urban service:
they count with 124 urban taxis, in excellent condition , most of them are the latest model . They offer their services through the central radios.
- Phones PBX: 7243333 - 7241111 - 7247000 - 3182818213
Colective urban service:
They count with 40 urban microbuses who serve doing 4 courses or routes:
- San Martín - Centro - Almendros - Cementos
- Villa Olímpica - Centro - Hospital - Fátima
- Libertad - Centro - Cementos - Ragonessi
- Mateguadua - Centro - Fátima - SENA
Covering the entire poulation of San Gil, providing a service that is agile and steady from 5:30 am to 10:00 pm
To set off to San Gil, from whatever part of Colombia, you just need to take a bus from Bucaramanga or Tunja (each trip lasts three hours more or less) and there are many trips for going to San Gil constantly.
Routes:
- Bogota – San gil:
Keyboarders: Copetran, Berlinas, La Reina and Omega.
Get out from: Bogota’s central terminal or central portal (If you take a bus in central portal, it will spend five minutes traveling).
Spending time: The travel spends between six or eight hours and it’s more comfortable if you take a bus at night.
Ticket’s price: The price starts until $30.000 depending on the keyboarders
Notes: The buses pass by Chiquinquira or Tunja; nevertheless, the second route is 60 kms shotter than the first route but, the road isn’t paved.
- Santa Marta / Taganga – San Gil:
Keyboarders: Copetran, Berlinas and Brasilia
Get out from: Santa Marta’s central terminal. If you come from Taganga, you have to take a taxi until this terminal.
Spending time: The travel spends 12 hours approximately.
Ticket’s price: It starts until $50.000.
Notes: The night buses are so popular in this route, they start in Santa Marta and stop in Bucaramanga (it costs $12.000), also, you can take a bus between 5:00 pm to 11:00 p.m. Then, you have to take a bus from Bucaramanga to San Gil.
- Cartagena – San gil:
Keyboarders: Copetran, Berlinas or Brasilia.
Get out from: Cartagena’s central terminal.
Spending time: The travel spends 14 hours approximately.
Ticket’s price: It starts from $ 60,000 , but only until Bucaramanga.
Notes: The night buses are very popular in this road, the buses travel from Cartagena to Bucaramanga and it’s necessary to take another to San Gil ($12,000). The buses from Cartagena to Bucaramanga get out from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
- Medellin – San gil:
Keyboarders: Copetran, Berlinas or Brasilia.
Get out from: Medellin’s central terminal.
Spending time: the travel spends 10 approximately.
Ticket’s price: the travel costs $50000.
Notes: The night buses are very popular in this road, the buses starts from Medellin to Bucaramanga where it’s necessary to take another bus to San Gil ( it costs $12,000). The buses from Medellin to Bucaramanga get out from 5: p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Los Pozos Airport
The first plane that tried to land in San Gil was the one that was piloted by the French M. Machaux. The building of this airport was due to the donation of the lands from Roberto Rueda Galvis and Sofía Parra de Rueda on January 28th of 1948. The airport has an extension of 1400 meters of length and 300 meters of width. After some time, Los Pozos Airport was founded in 1951 with the land of many aircrafts which came from Bogotá and Bucaramanga, but all these flights had commercial objectives.
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Nowadays the airport is not able to receive flights because of the conditions of its way landing. There are two roads to get there. The first one is on the way to Barichara and the second one that was built later is 9 km from San Gil from the neighborhood Almendros. Both roads aren’t paved. A little part of the road is paved.
Even though the bad conditions of the roads and the airport, this one is used for many social events like the kite’s festival in August every year, also you can go there to ride motorcycles, four wheel cycles and bikes.
It is also a good option to learn how to drive.
If you want to walk and do some exercise, you can on the road to the airport.
You will also find many neighborhoods and a little school on the way.
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