53 Facts About Barranquilla

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Barranquilla is the capital district of Atlantico Department in Colombia.

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Barranquilla became Colombia's main port, and with its level of industrialization and modernity earned the nickname "Colombia's Golden Gate" .

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Barranquilla has hosted the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games and will host the 2027 Pan American Games.

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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.

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Barranquilla's name refers to the canyons that existed in the area adjacent to the Magdalena, where the city arose.

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Barranquilla is known as La Arenosa, so named by the president of New Granada, Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera, during his stay in Barranquilla in 1849.

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Music and lyrics of Himno de Barranquilla were chosen in competition by the Sociedad de Mejoras Publicas and officially adopted as the anthem of the city by the Municipal Council in a meeting on 19 October 1942.

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Unlike other cities in Colombia such as Cartagena or Bogota D C, Barranquilla was not founded during the Spanish colonial period and it was not founded on a pre-Columbian site.

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Barranquilla is best known as The Golden Gate of Colombia because its location north of Colombia and it is the most important maritime port of The Republic of Colombia.

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Barranquilla is honored as the origination of the aviation and airport.

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Barranquilla's became the victim of a disregardful violent act by the second encomendero of Galapa, Don Pedro de Barros I, when he arbitrarily grabbed all the Camacho population that could offer labour and took them to his encomienda.

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Origin of Barranquilla, promoted in the second half of the 19th century by the historian Domingo Malabet, was not supported by oral tradition nor scientifically validated.

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Blanco Barros' 1987 book on Northern Tierradentro and the origins of Barranquilla argued that the city had been founded by farmers from the neighboring town of Galapa who left their land, following their herds to the Magdalena River.

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Geographic area of Barranquilla did not include mineral or natural riches, and thus did not serve as a location where the Spanish maintained a permanent presence.

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Barranquilla thus initiated a lively exchange of goods with cities and towns of the Colombian interior, as well as with international merchants, and it became a principal port for the export of coffee.

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In 1840, merchants and commercial carriers of Barranquilla tried to form an independent province, Cibeles, which was to comprise the cantons of Barlovento.

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At the establishment of the United States of Colombia, the growing commercial importance of Barranquilla led to the construction, between 1869 and 1871, of the Bolivar Railway, the first railway of the present-day Republic of Colombia.

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Barranquilla became one of the 34 new departments, comprising the provinces of Barranquilla and Sabanalarga.

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Barranquilla has always been famous for its chaotic urban planning, understandable given its spontaneous origin as a port and the reality of high administrative corruption which has hampered the channeling of resources for building an urban centre of greater structure and dimensions.

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Barranquilla is located at latitude 10° 59 '16 "north of the Equator and longitude 74° 47' 20" west of Greenwich, with reference to the Plaza de la Paz, ground zero of the city.

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Politically, Barranquilla is limited to the east by the department of Magdalena, north to the town of Puerto Colombia and the Caribbean Sea, west with the municipalities of Puerto Colombia, Galapa and Tubara and south with the municipality of Soledad.

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Barranquilla has a tropical savanna climate bordering a hot semi-arid climate ; it is hot all-year-round, with high levels of relative humidity.

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Barranquilla contains important ecosystems such as the Magdalena River, Mallorquin Swamp and the Eastern pipe system.

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The Judicial Circle of Barranquilla is formed by the civil, family, laboral and penal tribunals of Barranquilla, as well as the combined tribunals of Galapa, Juan de Acosta-Tubara, Piojo and Puerto Colombia.

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Metropolitan Area of Barranquilla is an urban agglomeration located in the northeastern corner of Atlantico.

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Barranquilla is home to the First Division of the National Army of Colombia, formed in part by the Second Mechanised Brigade, which consists of the No 4 Battalion Mechanized Infantry Battalion.

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In Barranquilla are the most important regional headquarters of many Colombian state entities, which are intended to develop programs and strategies defined by national guidelines.

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Barranquilla is a major industrial centre and its economic activity is dynamic, concentrated mainly in industry, commerce, finance, services and fishing.

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City is divided into different infrastructure zones; the Zona Franca de Barranquilla is the oldest and largest of the country which has around 90 companies operating within it.

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The port of Barranquilla covers two main routes, the Magdalena River, which communicates with the interior of the country and the Caribbean Sea, from which millions of tonnes of goods are traded Europe and Asia.

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Barranquilla'storically, the days when most homicides occur are Saturday and Sunday, but in 2007 there was a uniform distribution on all days.

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The Centro historico of Barranquilla is a nationally protected site by the Ministry of Culture through resolution 1614 of 1999.

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Since the 90's, the historic center of Barranquilla is in the process of recovery, which was consolidated in 2008 with the Ministry of Culture's announcement for a public competition of urban design.

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At local government level, the development of Barranquilla centre is sponsored by the Promotora del Desarrollo del Distrito Central de Barranquilla S A, a decentralized body attached to the District Municipality.

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Paseo de Bolivar, in the heart of Barranquilla, is the most important avenue of the city and the place from which it expanded.

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Barranquilla has an acute deficiency of public spaces and planting trees, reflected in an average of 0.

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Barranquilla pays tribute to local heroes and national personalities and sister nations, as well as national holidays, sports, art, culture and historical and religious events and religious.

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Barranquilla has a complete road layout, where the roads are twisted in a perpendicular way forming blocks.

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Barranquilla's architecture was built almost entirely in the twentieth century.

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Barranquilla has developed throughout the years an active business and commercial tourist centre especially during times of carnivals and New Year's Eve, when it receives a large influx of visitors.

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Barranquilla offers locals and visitors a variety of venues and shopping malls where domestic and imported goods can be purchased.

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Barranquilla Zoo is a wildlife sanctuary which houses colorful native and foreign animal species, with an emphasis on Colombian fauna and the protection of endangered species.

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Republican group of former customs buildings, known as the Complejo Cultural de la Antigua Aduana, were restored during the 1990s to house the Biblioteca Piloto del Caribe, File Historico del Atlantico, Musical Documentation Centre, Estacion Montoya, Parque Cultural Aduana-Elbers, Pllaza de la Locomotora, and Alejandro Obregon's Simbologia de Barranquilla, established in 1956 by the Banco Popular, which donated it to the Government of the Atlantico Department in 1994 for restoration.

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Barranquilla is home to many cultural events like art shows, exhibitions, literary workshops, talks philosophy, plays, poetry workshops, dances, exhibitions, concerts and festivals like the Festival de Orquestas under the Carnival and Barranquijazz.

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Barranquilla serves a wide variety of cuisine to match its cosmopolitan population and tourists.

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In recent decades, Barranquilla received a number of students, who could not pursue higher education studies in the absence of institutions in their places of origin.

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Barranquilla is home to several universities with high academic standards and research, including Universidad del Norte, Universidad del Atlantico, Universidad Autonoma del Caribe, Universidad Libre Seccional Barranquilla, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Universidad Metropolitana, Corporacion Universitaria de la Costa, Universidad Antonio Narino, and Fundacion Universitaria San Martin.

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In Barranquilla there are 4 SENA centres: the Centre for Trade and Services, Aviation and Industry, the Colombo-German National Centre and the Cedagro Centre for Agroecology Development and Agribusiness.

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Barranquilla has a major sea and river port, third largest by cargo volume in the country.

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Traffic through the port of Barranquilla is regulated by the Captain of the Port of Barranquilla, which is responsible for the direction, coordination and control of maritime activities such as arrivals, departures, status of ships, safety, licensing, advertisements, among others.

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Sports in Barranquilla are promoted at the governmental level by the Ministry of Sports and Deportes de la Alcaldia Distrital.

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Barranquilla has hosted the Colombia national football team during World Cup qualifiers for Italy, USA, France, Germany, Brazil, Russia, and Qatar .

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Barranquilla is mention in the Hank Snow song I've been Everywhere, most famously covered by Johnny Cash.

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