hotels in Colombia’s coffee region are not only expanding their accommodations for tourists, but also developing the area as a center of culinary innovation.

The Colombian city of Pereira celebrates its 148th anniversary, complete with a giant birthday cake, a "Happy Birthday" musical performance by Colombian pop singer Jhonny Rivera, and "the best fireworks Colombia has seen."

UNESCO has added Colombia's coffee region to its list of World Heritage sites, the United Nation's organization for education, science and culture announces.

Colombia's coffee-growing region launches its first website to draw more attention to the region's tourism possibilities.

Colombia will invest $140,000 to develop a park in the Coffee Region designed to exhibit the importance of water resources.

Explore Colombia’s magical Cocora Valley on horseback, and see hummingbirds, waterfalls, and the other-worldly wax palm, the country's national tree.

Explore Colombia's "paramo," a high-altitude grassland in the coffee region whose flora and fauna look like something out of a sci-fi novel.

Tourists wishing to visit the central Colombian department of Risaralda will be able to do so more safely in the coming months, through a scheme to run police-escorted 'caravans' touring the region's historically and cultural interesting areas.