{"id":31222,"date":"2019-08-17T20:04:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T01:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/mini-guide-sopo-the-nicest-village-in-colombia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:17:48","slug":"mini-guide-sopo-the-nicest-village-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/en\/mini-guide-sopo-the-nicest-village-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-guide Sop\u00f3 | The most amazing unknown village in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask me what I think is the most amazing village in Colombia, I answer without a doubt Sop\u00f3. Not to be confused with the most beautiful village, because then I rather think of Barichara. But the most amazing, for sure. And not because I lived there for 4 years, but because it is genuinely an incredibly nice village. Despite this, most foreign tourists do not know that this village at all exists.<\/strong> So, time for a mini-guide, so you too can enjoy this hidden gem off the beaten path in Colombia. Looking for a weekend getaway from Bogot\u00e1 or a place to stay for a week and explore Cundinamarca from here? Then Sop\u00f3 is your village.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sop\u00f3 | A surprisingly nice place<\/h2>\n
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Ask a Bogotan about Sop\u00f3 and you’ll get the answer “that’s the village of Alpina!” Sop\u00f3 is located in the department of Cundinamarca and founded in the year 1653. The village is situated at an altitude of nearly 2,600 meters, the average temperature is 14 degrees and the village itself is home to over 17,000 people. However, Sop\u00f3 also consists of 17 veredas<\/em> (a type of rural hamlets), with nearly 10,000 inhabitants. I lived in one of these veredas<\/i>. Thus, all of Sop\u00f3 is home to some 27,000 people. Fact: there are no traffic lights in Sop\u00f3.<\/p>\n

Just 40 kilometers north of Bogot\u00e1, Sop\u00f3 is a popular place to live as well as to escape the city for a day.<\/strong> Therefore, Sunday (and holidays) is the only day when there is a traffic jam, namely for the entrance to La Caba\u00f1a Alpina.<\/p>\n

And with that, we immediately have one of the village’s biggest sources of income to deal with: Alpina, that is. Alpina produces dairy products, from cheese to cake to yogurt to milk and everything else that can be thought with dairy products. These are sold in the Caba\u00f1a, but there is also an Alpina factory in Sop\u00f3.<\/p>\n

Other important products from Sop\u00f3 are flowers and ceramics. For example, there is also a large branch of the well-known ceramics company Corona in Sop\u00f3. All this provides many jobs and income for the village.<\/p>\n\n\t\t