Buenaventura is Colombia’s main Pacific port and the country’s largest city on the Pacific coast. Built around shipping channels, docks, and coastal mangroves, it serves as the principal gateway to remote beach communities and fishing villages along the region. The city moves constantly between cargo traffic, ferries, markets, and the humid atmosphere of the tropical coastline, giving it a practical and transient character shaped by the sea.
We passed briefly through Buenaventura in March 2026 while waiting for the ferry to Juanchaco. We stayed just enough to withdraw cash, have lunch, and walk around the port area a little before departure. Along the waterfront, I took a few photographs of the coast, the boats, and the movement around the harbor while people came and went between the ferries and the streets nearby.
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