Mompox, Colombia: Colonial Streets and River Life on the Magdalena
Go world travel | 07.05.2026 21:00
Locals still marvel at the “Great Bridge,” the soaring span across the Magdalena River opened this decade. The bridge has cut the 170-mile drive to and from Cartagena from nearly a full day to just six hours. But for all that modern engineering has accomplished, the town of Santa Cruz de Mompox remains stubbornly distant, a world apart from coastal Cartagena or the metropolises of Medellín or Bogotá.
