Road to El Sifón

Climb from tropical valleys deep into the high páramo of the Colombian Andes. The queen stage: one road, many Colombias. Four climate zones in two days. Coffee hills rise to cloud forests. Cloud forests give way to fields of frailejones. Frailejones fade into high-altitude páramo above the treeline. This is the longest paved climb ever used in a professional race, featured in the Vuelta a Colombia 2024. The Magdalena Valley to the high Andes, revealing rare landscapes, small communities, and diverse cultures along a single road.

166 km, 5,150 m of climbing, Honda to Manizales via Líbano, Murillo, El Sifón, Alto de Letras (4,149 m)