about hackathon colombia

what this is

Hackathon Colombia is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Colombia and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one, and it browses by 8 city hubs.

Right now there are 2 upcoming events listed. That number moves every week — the collection run adds what it finds, and an event drops out of the main list into the archive once it has happened. The directory is new, so expect it to be on the thin side for a while; what is here is real.

We do not run hackathons. Every listing links out to the organiser's own page, which is where registration, rules, schedules and any questions about the event itself belong. Think of this as an index, not an intermediary.

where the listings come from

Listings are gathered automatically. Once a week, on a Sunday, a collection run checks the public event platforms that Colombian hackathon organisers actually use — Luma first of all, then Eventbrite, Meetup and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in Colombia, whether the listing calls it a hackathon (also hackatón). Organisers can also add an event directly through the submit form.

Automated collection is the only way to keep a directory of this kind current, but it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:

• Colombia only. Spanish is also the language of Spain, Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and Cartagena, Córdoba, Armenia and Santa Marta all exist on more than one map. An event is only accepted when something other than the city name and the language confirms it is Colombian: a .co or .com.co link, the America/Bogota timezone, a Colombian university or organisation, a six-digit postcode, or Colombia-only eligibility rules. A Spanish-language online listing from Spain or Mexico is not a Colombian event and is deliberately kept out.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify.
• Online events need a Colombian signal. An online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a local link, a local timezone, or Colombia-only eligibility rules.
• Still upcoming. Past events move to an archive section rather than the main listings.
• Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link or its title and merged into one listing.

how the listings are written

Once an event is accepted, its page is read and the details are pulled out — dates normalised to the local format (26 sept. 2026), prices to pesos, written CO$ 2.500 so they are never mistaken for the US, Mexican or Argentine pesos and dollars this site links to, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser. Titles stay exactly as the organiser wrote them. Bogotá, Medellín and Cali are kept as the organiser wrote them; only the URL is ASCII.

how the city hubs work

Eight hub cities — Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Cartagena, Pereira and Manizales — plus the municipalities around them. Each hub covers the area around it rather than the city limits alone, so events in Chía, Envigado, Yumbo or Floridablanca all show up under their nearest hub. Cúcuta, Ibagué, Santa Marta, Villavicencio and Pasto keep their own name and show under all events. The kinds of event you will find — university hackathons (Uniandes, Nacional, EAFIT, Javeriana), Ruta N and chamber-of-commerce programmes, bank and fintech challenges, MinTIC and civic open-data events and game jams — are listed on the guide page.

money

The directory is funded by featured listings: an organiser can show their event as a banner on every page for seven days for a one-time fee. The order of ordinary listings is unaffected — it stays chronological.