🇨🇴 Cali, Colombia · Festival

Petronio Álvarez – Festival de Música del Pacífico

Day & nightOpen air

Estimated attendance

800,000 people

Basis of the estimate: total visits (each day counted) · 2025 edition · Source ↗

About this number

Free city festival, multi-day. The 2026 edition (Aug 9–17) may have been suspended after the 10 Aug 2026 earthquake (unverified, the page returned 403), so 2025 is used. Another El País page quotes the Alcaldía at 500,000, year unspecified.

Usual month

August

Ranking

#6

among the world's 100 biggest festivals

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Next edition

Next edition dates: check the official site.

It usually takes place in August.

Edition by edition

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