In July in the municipality of El Retorno, about half an hour from San José del Guaviare, the Peasant Music Festival (Festival de Musica Campesina) is held. This event, more than merely a musical festival, is an exaltation of the work of farm workers and the diversity of the municipality.
 
The peasant music contest is the main event of the festival. Singers from various parts of the department appear on the stage installed in the central park of the municipality and perform traditional songs that reflect rural life and the feelings of the Colombian peasant. 

In El Retorno, a municipality north of Guaviare, just 30 kilometers from the departmental capital, the El Garcero Festival takes place every February, an event that honors local culture.
 
The festival has a varied program with activities such as horseback riding, cycling tours, gastronomic fairs and the emblematic Garzopódromo, a space in which couples and dance groups from different parts of the Colombian Orinoco region participate, showing their skill in the joropo dance. 

About 50 kilometers southwest of the municipal seat of San José del Guaviare is the town of El Capricho where the Sixth La "Guacamaya de Oro" Tourist and Cultural Sports Festival is celebrated in mid-December.
 
The festival offers a varied agenda of activities that include sports competitions such as cycling and motorcycling races and bullfighting, a typical sport of the eastern Colombian plains in which a rider must try to take down a bull by grabbing it by the tail. 

Every November in Calamar, Guaviare, the Golden Raft Festival (Festival de la Balsa Dorada) is celebrated, a cultural celebration that highlights the history, traditions and natural wealth of this Amazon region and which has become one of the main events in the region's festive calendar. .
 
The festival has a varied program. One of the main events is the parade of comparsas in which the Calamarans pay tribute to their cultural diversity and biodiversity. 

Every year in August in San José del Guaviare the International "Yurupari de Oro" Festival is held, the most important of the department's celebrations, born in 1995 as a celebration of the autonomy of Guaviare as a department starting in 1991, after having been previously linked to the Vaupés Police Station.
 
The festival takes its name from "Yuruparí", a mythical hero of the ancestral tradition of numerous indigenous peoples both in the Colombian Amazon and in Brazil, who taught music to his people according to tradition. 

In the municipality of Miraflores, the south of the department of Guaviare on the eastern bank of the Vaupés River, the Solidarity and Dabucury Festival (Festival de la Solidaridad y el Dabucury) has been celebrated since its consolidation in 1999, which takes its name from one of the central rituals of the indigenous peoples. who live in the region.
 

At the beginning of November in Inírida, capital of Guainía, the Festival of Colonies and Three Cultures Gathering (Festival de Colonias y Encuentro de Tres Culturas) is celebrated, a festival with which the people of Inírida celebrate their own culture, their traditions and the multi-ethnic and multicultural character of the region. 

This festival, born at the end of the 1990s to celebrate the anniversary of the municipality, was declared cultural heritage of the nation in 2016.
 

During Holy Week, Zipaquirá, a municipality located just an hour from Bogotá, becomes a pilgrimage destination for thousands of devotees who seek to spend the holy days in the Salt Cathedral, one of the largest underground temples in the world, considered the first wonder from Colombia.

Bojacá, a small municipality whose head is located just 40 kilometers west of Bogotá, is one of the main destinations for religious tourism during Holy Week for the inhabitants of Cundinamarca.
 
The celebrations of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday and Friday and the Easter Vigil are lived with particular devotion in the Parish of San Lorenzo Mártir, guarded by the Dominican fathers who have carried the town's doctrine since the mid-17th century. 

Since 1969, the National Tourism Beauty Pageant (Reinado Nacional del Turismo) has been held in October in Girardot to celebrate the city's founding anniversary. This is one of the most important beauty pageants in the country, bringing together representatives from various regions and promoting tourism in Colombia.