About_Barranquilla

Before the Spaniards came, Barranquilla was in habituated since two millenniums before Christ by Caribbean tribes. During the conquest and the colony (1500-1810) never was an interesting point to the Spanish authorities, because there was never any mines of precious metals found like gold or silver, nor a numerous Indian population that would have justified an active presence for the conquerors.

The rise of Barranquilla as a long lasting human settlement happened in the middle of XVII century with the apparition, by spontaneous generation, of the primitive settlement that back then was called "El partido de tierra adentro".

Barranquilla simply "appeared", it had its genesis in a group of countryman that decided to stay. They came from other zones. One of them settled a farm that was name after him: Don Nicolás de Barros, near the Indian town. The farm activity was an important impulse for the growth of the activities of the settlement, because it attracted a great quantity of people that found jobs in the daily farm activities. In the XVIII century, the place achieved the category of parish and the settlement got closer to the colonial administration whose center was in the government of "Cartagena de Indias".

The place was known as the "Barrancas de San Nicolás", because it was a landing place of canoes, which is the meaning of word "Barranca" after which it took the name of Barranquilla. The most important activity was commercial trade and the transportation of merchandise that came by way of channel from the Magdalena River to this "barranca". When the first census took place in 1777 the "Sitio y Feligresía de San Nicolás de Barranquilla" total count of 2590 people resided in 384 houses.

Perhaps due to the activities related to trade and smuggling, Barranquilla was on the side of the patriots during the war against Spain. Its courageous attitude made them deserve the category of Village in 1813, which begins the Republican period.

As a consequence of the establishment of the fluvial navigation in the middle of this past century, begins the commercial take off of the village, and so, the European and the Asian migration, principally. With this, came to our city the architectural concepts of the Old World. The appearance of the village changed during the first 40 years of this century offering to the country the most brilliant process of development in the urban and institutional areas in Colombia. In the early part of the 20th Century Barranquilla became known as the "Golden Gate to Colombia" due to its excellent Public Works, fresh water sea port and river traffic to the interior of the country.

At present, Barranquilla is honored to have the second most modern international airport in Colombia. The economy of the city is based on industry and commerce.

The Population is about 2.000.000 habitants.

Temperature: 32° C climate cooled by sea breezes at the night.

In February each year Barranquilla host one of the largest and most famous carnivals honoring Mardi Gras in all of Latin America.

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