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Best Shopping Destinations in Latin America

31 city guides · 3-day shopping itineraries

3-day city guides covering local markets, boutiques, design districts and the best souvenirs.

Latin America
🇵🇾 Paraguay

Asuncion

From the sprawling Mercado 4 to Villa Morra's air-conditioned malls and Areguá's ceramics road — whe…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Barranquilla

From sequins sold by the metre in Barranquillita to woven palm from Usiacurí and the glass malls of …

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Belo Horizonte

Sunday's 3,000-stall street fair, the soapstone-and-copper artisan trade of Minas Gerais, Savassi's …

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Bogota

From the pre-dawn flower stalls of Paloquemao to Zona T ateliers and the Usaquén flea market.…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Brasilia

From the 1,200-stall Feira do Guará to Lago Norte luxury and the golden-grass weavers under the TV T…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Buenos Aires

From Sunday antiques on Defensa to Palermo Soho's independent designers, Once wholesale rails and th…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cali

From the wholesale chaos of Calle 13 to San Antonio's ceramic studios and the custom dance-shoe work…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Caracas

From the 05:00 chaos of Quinta Crespo to El Hatillo's craft warehouses and Las Mercedes design studi…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cartagena

From the raw fish-and-fruit chaos of Bazurto to the emerald counters of Las Bóvedas and the resort-w…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Curitiba

From the thousand-stall Largo da Ordem craft fair to Pátio Batel's luxury floor, with antique dealer…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Cusco

From the 1925 iron halls of San Pedro to Carmen Alto ateliers, weavers' co-ops on Tullumayo and the …

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Fortaleza, Brazil

Handmade bilro lace, hand-woven redes, cashew nuts by the kilo and Ceará designer labels, from the f…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Guayaquil

Toquilla-straw weavers, Bahía street stalls, Samborondón design boutiques and Ecuador's single-origi…

Latin America
🇧🇴 Bolivia

La Paz

Aguayo textiles by the metre, fair-trade alpaca, Bolivian design boutiques and El Alto's 40-block fe…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Lima

From Surquillo's produce aisles to Barranco's design mansions, Miraflores alpaca mills and Gamarra's…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Mar Del Plata

Artisan fairs on Plaza Rocha, boutique Güemes, and the knitwear outlets that made this beach city Ar…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Maracaibo

From the chaos of Las Pulgas to Wayúu mochilas, Zulian hammocks and the air-conditioned malls of Ave…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Medellin

From the flower-and-fruit chaos of Plaza Minorista to Provenza's independent designers and the leath…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Montevideo

From Sunday's endless Tristán Narvajo flea market to Cordón's independent ateliers and the wool coop…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Porto Alegre

Producer fairs and popular arcades, Moinhos de Vento boutiques, and brick-factory design studios acr…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Punta Arenas

From the crab stalls of the Mercado Municipal to South America's southernmost duty-free zone, with g…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Punta Del Este

From Plaza Artigas artisan stalls and Maldonado's Saturday market to La Barra design rooms, José Ign…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Quito

From the Otavalo-supplied stalls of Mercado Artesanal to Guápulo's design ateliers and La Floresta's…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Recife

From the 1875 cast-iron halls of Mercado de São José to Casa Forte's design ateliers and Caruaru-sty…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Rio de Janeiro

From the Ipanema Sunday craft fair to Gávea's designer boutiques and the tin-roofed Feira de São Cri…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Rosario

From the 1930s galerías of Calle Córdoba to weekend riverside artisan fairs, Rosario shops like a po…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Salvador

From a 1912 customs-house bazaar and Brazil's largest dendê market to Rio Vermelho's print ateliers …

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Santiago

From the copper-roofed artisan halls of Bellavista to the art deco design studios of Barrio Italia a…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Sao Paulo

From the 1933 Mercadão and 3,000-shop wholesale strips to Jardins boutiques, a 2km furniture mile an…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Ushuaia

Artisan plaza stalls, duty-free Avenida San Martín, Fuegian chocolate houses and the world's souther…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Valparaiso

Antique fairs on Plaza O'Higgins, artisan workshops on Cerro Alegre and copper, lapis lazuli and Chi…