While there are several teams in the Third Division (Primera C), Pereira is the only professional team in Risaralda.
Hernán Barreneche Ríos (born July 25, 1939 in Pereira, Risaralda) is a long-distance runner from Colombia, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics (1968 and 1972).
Bernardo Ríos is a Colombian artist, born in Santuario, Risaralda, Colombia in 1959.
The Mistratoan Yellow-shouldered Bat (Sturnira mistratensis), is a species of leaf-nosed bat indigenous to the western Andes, in the Mistrato municipality in Risaralda, Colombia.
Risaralda department with an area of 365,300 ha, is located in the central sector of the central Andean region west of the country between two major poles of economic development (department of Antioquia in northern and southern Cauca Valley, extending between the central and western Cordillera), which slopes down toward the Río Cauca, also borders the departments of Caldas in the north-east, east Tolima, Quindio Chocó south and west.
Her younger sister, María Isabel is a Liberal party politician who has served as Mayor of Pereira, Governor of Risaralda, and Congresswoman in both the Chamber and the Senate.