{"id":34050,"date":"2023-12-29T22:41:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T03:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/minca-colombia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:04:48","slug":"minca-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/en\/minca-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Minca | What to do? Where to stay? And how to get there?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minca is a tiny mountain village at the foot of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta<\/strong>. The high mountain range on Colombia’s northern coast. In fact, the highest coastal mountain range in the world<\/strong>. From Santa Marta, right on the sea, you’ll get to 600 meters in Minca in just 15 kilometers and about 40 minutes. An immensely popular village among foreign tourism. So I decided that after all these years it was time to visit this area as well. In this article you will read about Minca: what to do, where to stay and how to get there. Also: for which travelers is Minca fun to visit, and when is it better to skip this place?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Minca | Where Colombia’s first coffee plantation was founded<\/h2>\n
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Originally, Minca is a real coffee village<\/strong>. In the nineteenth century the Olig\u00f3s D\u00edaz Granados family started Colombia’s first coffee plantation<\/strong> right here. And still coffee is an important product in the mountains of Minca. You can also visit coffee plantations there, and the coffee here is delicious.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Minca is primarily a village for tourism. Only 800 people live there, and the village consists of a few streets.<\/p>\n

In recent years, hotels and hostels in Minca have sprung up like mushrooms. Not in those few streets of Minca itself, but in the surrounding mountains<\/strong>. Therefore, before you book your hotel, check carefully where your hotel is located. In fact, the route to get there can be quite challenging. But more on that later in this article.<\/p>\n\n\t\t