There are 11 ways to get from Ambato to Colombia by car, plane, bus, or taxi
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- Drive from Ambato to Guayaquil (GYE)
- Fly from Guayaquil (GYE) to Bogota (BOG)GYE - BOG
bestDrive to Guayaquil, fly to Bogota
7h$118–325- Drive from Ambato to Bogotá751.4 mi
cheapestDrive 751.4 mi
17h 58m$69–99- Take the bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Take the bus from Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe to Rumichaca
- Take the taxi from Hospital to Pasto
- Take the bus from Pasto to Terminal Salitre
Bus, taxi
20h 13m$91–108- Drive from Ambato to Guayaquil (GYE)
- Fly from Guayaquil (GYE) to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova (MDE)GYE - MDE
Drive to Guayaquil, fly to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
6h 58m$159–358- Take the bus from Ambato to San Miguel de Salcedo
- Take the bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Fly from Quito (UIO) to Bogota (BOG)UIO - BOG
- Take the bus from Ac 26 - Kr 85D to Ac 19 - Kr 18A
Bus, bus to Quito, fly to Bogota
8h 4m$127–310- Take the bus from Ambato to San Miguel de Salcedo
- Take the bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Fly from Quito (UIO) to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova (MDE)UIO - MDE
Bus, bus to Quito, fly to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
8h 12m$133–343- Take the bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Fly from Quito (UIO) to Cali (CLO)UIO - CLO
Bus to Quito, fly to Cali
8h 52m$162–346- Take the bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Take the bus from Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe to Rumichaca
- Fly from Ipiales (IPI) to Bogota (BOG)IPI - BOG
Bus, bus to Ipiales, fly to Bogota
10h 3m$98–312- Take the bus from Terminal Terrestre de Ambato to Ibarra
- Take the bus from Ibarra to Tulcán
- Take the bus from Ipiales to Terminal Salitre
Bus
32h 7m$470–484- Take the bus from Ambato to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Take the bus from Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe to Rumichaca
- Take the bus from Ipiales to Terminal Salitre
Bus via Quito
32h 30m$484–504- Take the bus from Ambato to Ibarra
- Take the bus from Ibarra to Tulcán
- Take the bus from Ipiales to Terminal Salitre
Bus via Ambato
32h 47m$460–466
Guayaquil (GYE) to Bogota (BOG) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Ambato to Colombia is to drive which costs $65 - $100 and takes 17h 58m.
The fastest way to get from Ambato to Colombia is to drive and fly which takes 6h 58m and costs $150 - $360.
No, there is no direct bus from Ambato to Colombia. However, there are services departing from Ambato and arriving at Ac 19 - Kr 18 via Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe, Rumichaca, Ipiales, CL 19 - KR 69B Zona Ind. Montevideo and AV. Américas - KR 59 Puente Aranda. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 32h 30m.
The distance between Ambato and Colombia is 1289 km. The road distance is 1209.3 km.
The best way to get from Ambato to Colombia without a car is to bus and taxi which takes 20h 13m and costs $90 - $110.
It takes approximately 7h to get from Ambato to Colombia, including transfers.
Ambato to Colombia bus services, operated by Cooperativa de Transportes Loja Internacional, depart from Ambato station.
Ambato to Colombia bus services, operated by Cooperativa de Transportes Loja Internacional, arrive at Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe station.
Yes, the driving distance between Ambato to Colombia is 1209 km. It takes approximately 17h 58m to drive from Ambato to Colombia.
There are 12+ hotels available in Colombia. Prices start at $11 USD per night.
What companies run services between Ambato, Ecuador and Colombia?
You can take a bus from Terminal Terrestre de Ambato to Ac 19 - Kr 18A via Ibarra, Ibarra, Tulcán, Ipiales, Terminal Salitre, CL 19 - KR 69B Zona Ind. Montevideo, and AV. Américas - KR 60 in around 32h 7m.
- Website
- avianca.com
Flights from Guayaquil to Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–440
Flights from Guayaquil to Bogota via Quito
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 59m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–440
Flights from Guayaquil to Bogota via Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 49m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $160–440
Flights from Guayaquil to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $180–550
Flights from Guayaquil to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova via Quito
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 27m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $180–550
Flights from Guayaquil to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180–550
Flights from Quito to Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–290
Flights from Quito to Bogota via Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–290
Flights from Quito to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–360
Flights from Quito to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 39m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–360
Flights from Quito to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova via Guayaquil
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $110–360
Flights from Quito to Cali via Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $200–460
Flights from Quito to Cali via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–460
Flights from Ipiales to Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $60–200
- Website
- latam.com
Flights from Guayaquil to Bogota via Quito
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $150–480
Flights from Quito to Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–350
Flights from Quito to Medellin Jose Marie Cordova via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $110–270
Flights from Quito to Cali via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 9m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–370
- Website
- copaair.com
Flights from Quito to Cali via Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180–850
- Website
- go2sky.aero
Flights from Quito to Cali
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $21–240
Flights from Quito to Cali via Esmeraldas
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $170–360
- Website
- satena.com
Flights from Ipiales to Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–400
Bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Phone
- +593 95 877 5117
- Website
- es-la.facebook.com
Bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- es-la.facebook.com
- Phone
- +59 30 3392 0215
- info@cooperativabanos.com.ec
- Website
- cooperativabanos.com.ec
Bus from San Miguel de Salcedo to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $3–5
- Schedules at
- cooperativabanos.com.ec
Bus from Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe to Rumichaca
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–40
- Book at
- lineasdelosandes.com
- Phone
- +57 (071) 4249090
- Website
- continentalbus.com.co
Bus from Pasto to Terminal Salitre
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $42
- Schedules at
- continentalbus.com.co
Bus from Ipiales to Terminal Salitre
- Ave. Duration
- 22h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $448
- Schedules at
- continentalbus.com.co
- Phone
- +(593) 032-520912
- info@transportescita.com
- Website
- transportescita.com
Bus from Ambato to San Miguel de Salcedo
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $1–2
- Website
- https://www.transportescita.com/sitio/
- Book at
- https://ce.novoerponline.com/eboleto
Bus from Ambato to Ibarra
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $6–9
- Website
- https://www.transportescita.com/sitio/
- Book at
- https://ce.novoerponline.com/eboleto
- Phone
- +57 (1) 2203000
- Website
- sitp.gov.co
Bus from Ac 26 - Kr 85D to Ac 19 - Kr 18A
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- $1
- Website
- sitp.gov.co
- Phone
- +593 99 354 7653
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Terminal Terrestre de Ambato to Ibarra
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $15
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +593 98 809 8584
- coop.putumayo@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Ibarra to Tulcán
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $4–18
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Book at
- viajabus.com
- Phone
- +59 07 257 1861
- cooploja@loja.telconet.net
- Website
- cooperativaloja.com.ec
Bus from Ambato to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–10
- Schedules at
- isyplus.com
- Book at
- isyplus.com
- Phone
- +593 3 252 1073
- info@cooperativasanta.ec
- Website
- cooperativasanta.ec
Bus from Ambato to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $9–13
- Schedules at
- cooperativasanta.ec
Bus from Ambato to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $3–5
- Schedules at
- transportesamazonas.com.ec
- Book at
- busplace.com
- Phone
- (+59) 0 2303-4291
- info@ocidentales.ec
- Website
- occidentales.ec
Bus from Ambato to Terminal Terrestre Quitumbe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 46m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $4–6
- Schedules at
- occidentales.ec
- Book at
- occidentales.ec
- Economy
- $4–6
- First
- $5–6
- Phone
- +593 (2) 2557133
- info@panamericana.ec
- Website
- panamericana.ec
Bus from Ibarra to Tulcán
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $3–5
- Schedules at
- panamericana.ec
- Book at
- panamericana.samasat.info
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Estimated price
- $11–14
Taxis Nocturnos Cootranoba
- Phone
- +57 2773 8888
Taxis La Frontera
- Phone
- +57 2773 3840
RadioTaxis 13 13
- Phone
- +57 2725 1313
- Website
- es-la.facebook.com
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