Bésame 100.7 FM Cúcuta

In Colombia's ordering this is number 93 of 158, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

With one recorded open, Bésame 100.7 FM Cúcuta sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Colombia's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Colombia's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

37 of Colombia's entries are served from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.

The station's own site is besame.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.