Buenaventura is a coastal seaport city located in the Pacific Region of the department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia (South America).

[3] Most of the urban development takes place on Cascajal Island, while the majority of the city's land is rural with scattered, small villages.

Today, the city is crucial for sending raw materials to nearby areas; this has brought prosperity and allowed recent new development to occur.

Buenaventura has had a notorious history plagued by the Colombian armed conflict, drug trafficking, violence, and the presence of guerrilla and paramilitary groups.

The money found was in several shipping containers sent from Manzanillo, Colima (Mexico) and Houston (United States), that belonged to brothers Luis Enrique and Javier Antonio Calle Serna, also known as the ‘Combas’.

[10] To counter the violence, the Colombian government has set up a marine special forces unit in the worst area of the city.

Buenaventura, like all of the Colombia Pacific Coast, has an extremely consistent, wet, cloudy, humid and hot tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af).

Piangüita, a coastal town near Buenaventura, has the Ecoparque Theme Green Iguanas, created by Rigoberto Gomez.