How to call +57?

Question: How do I call a +57 number? The number I want to call is +57 1 608xxxx.

Answer: +57 is the country code for Colombia. To call +57:

  1. Dial your country’s exit code. ‘011’ for the United States and Canada, ’00’ for many South American and European countries. Dialing a ‘+’ symbol on a mobile phone will automatically dial the local exit code.
  2. Dial ’57’ for Colombia’s country code. This will connect your call to Colombia’s phone network.
  3. Dial the rest of the phone number. Do not dial any leading ‘0’ in the telephone number. 

    As this phone number begins with area code ‘1’ it appears to be for the city of Bogota.

    To call this phone number from within Colombia and within the city of Bogota using a landline phone, dial 608xxxx. Do not dial a Colombian exit code or the country code ’57’. Also do not dial the trunk prefix ‘0’ or the area code ‘1’.

    To call this phone number from within Colombia and outside the city of Bogota or from a mobile phone, dial 01-608xxxx. Include the leading ‘0’ and the area code ‘1’. Do not include the exit code or Colombia’s country code of ’57’.

To call this phone number from the U.S. or Canada, dial 011-57-1-608xxxx.

To call this phone number from Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Spain, or the United Kingdom dial 00-57-1-608xxxx.

To call this phone number from Brazil dial 00 – two digit carrier code – 57-1-608xxxx. The two digit carrier code is specific to a phone carrier. It selects the company that bills the phone call.

To call this phone number from Australia dial 0011-57-1-608xxxx.

To call this phone number from Japan dial 010-57-1-608xxxx.

For more detail see our page on how to call Colombia.