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Barranquilla is a city and municipality located in northern Colombia. It is the only major city in South America that was populated before its formal foundation. Barranquilla is located near the Caribbean Sea. The city is located in the Atlántico Department, of which it is the capital. Barranquilla is the largest city and port in the northern Caribbean Coast region of Colombia, with a population of 2,370,753 in its metropolitan area, which makes it Colombia's fourth most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín and Cali.
Barranquilla lies strategically next to the delta of the Magdalena River, (originally before rapid urban growth) from its mouth at the Caribbean Sea, serving as port for river and maritime transportation within Colombia. It is also the main industrial, shopping, educational and cultural centre of the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The city is the core of the Metropolitan Area of Barranquilla, which also includes the municipalities of Soledad, Galapa, Malambo, and Puerto Colombia.
Barranquilla was legally established as a town on April 7, 1813, although it dated from at least 1629. It grew into an important port, serving as a haven for immigrants from Europe, especially during and immediately following World War I and World War II, when waves of additional immigrants from the Middle East and Asia arrived. Barranquilla became Colombia's principal port, and with its level of industrialization and modernity earned the city the nickname Colombia's Golden Gate (Spanish: La Puerta de Oro de Colombia). In the 1940s, Barranquilla was the second largest city in Colombia and one of the most modern cities in the Caribbean and in South America, while later, local administrations, due to widespread corruption in their ranks, brought about a decline in the standard of living. As government investment increased in other Colombian cities, Barranquilla's national position was eclipsed.
The city is home to one of the most important folk and cultural festivals of Colombia, the Carnival of Barranquilla, which was declared a National Cultural Heritage by the Congress of Colombia in 2001 and recognized by UNESCO in 2003. Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport, built in Barranquilla in 1919, was the first airport in South America. The city is served by domestic and international flights.
Barranquilla may refer to a number of places:
- Barranquilla, Chile
- Colombia
- Barranquilla, Atlántico Department, 4th largest city of Colombia
- Barranquilla Betania, Antioquia Department, Colombia
- Barranquilla, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
- Trinidad, Colombia Guaviare Department, Colombia, also known as Barranquilla
- Puente La Barranquilla, Guatemala
- La Barranquilla, Honduras
- Barranquilla, Mexico
- Panama
- Barranquilla, Bocas del Toro Province
- Barranquilla, Cocle Province
Usage examples of "barranquilla".
And then we would have another beer, because Scotch is so expensive in Barranquilla that only the rich can afford it.
Senor Rioco, who could swear when you arrived, and Senor Barranquilla whoshall we say?
In a strong northeaster they rounded Cape Antonio the next morning and headed southwest down the Yucatan Channel toward Barranquilla to pick up a neutral cargo of mahogany and rosewood, and not incidentally, an important British subject.
The monkey climbed palms in Barranquilla and threw down cocoanuts to the man.
There was an occasional tiny village, hard against the beach, and the large city of Barranquilla with its VOR beacon.
I might even reach Barranquilla ahead of it, but in all my years of delays that had only happened once.
And down the Magdalena he went, still sure of his quarry, following him to Bogota, and on again from Bogota to Barranquilla, and on to Savanilla, where he embarked on a Hamburg-American steamer for Limon.
Barges floated the crop down to the harbor at Barranquilla for transfer to the freighters that carried the bananas to the markets of the East Coast of the United States.
Buenaventura and not sitting at the back of a hangar in Barranquilla the whole time?
We ended up hiring a small plane for the last leg, but we reached Barranquilla at four in the afternoon, about twelve hours ahead of her schedule.
The Trans-Carib freighter filed a false flight plan and took off from Barranquilla, heading for Tampa via the Yucatan Strait.
Burke-and-Hare-type killings took place barely ten years ago, in Barranquilla, Colombia.