Wax palms in the Cocora Valley, Colombia

Who needs a visa for Colombia?

Latin America and the Caribbean · Bogotá

Photo: Bernard Gagnon / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Of 198 nationalities, 101 enter Colombia with no paperwork at all. The rest: 97 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Colombia government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Colombia's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 101

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 97

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

About Colombia

Region
South America
Capital
Bogotá
Population
53,425,635 2025 · 28th of 197
Size
1,141,748 km² 25th largest of 199
Density
47 per km²
Language
Spanish
Currency
Colombian peso COP
Borders
Brazil Ecuador Panama Peru Venezuela

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.