- Tourism
- Foreign Investment
- Export Promotion

Academic Center and of services
Bucaramanga is characterized for being a commercial city, especially in the sectors of footwear, confection, as well as in the presentation of the services of health, financiers and education. With a population of 522 thousand inhabitants and with scarcely 11 % of the population with Basic Unsatisfied needs, Bucaramanga is consolidated as a metropolis of the Andes with an increasing number of technological investigation centers in diverse topics, among those that stand out the energy, the gas, the oil, the corrosion, the asphalts, the leather and the tools of agri industrial development, between others.
| Economic Indicators 06/02/2012 |
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| Inflation | |
| Goal of inflation | 2.0-4.0 % |
| Annual inflation | 3.73 |
| Rates of interest - 06/02/2012 | |
| Rate of intervention | 5.00 % |
| Rate Interbancaria | 5.01 |
| TRM - 06/02/2012 | |
| Exchange rate (TRM) | $ 1,784.77 |
| Nominal depreciation - last 12 months | -4.66 |












