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7 unusual facts about Barranquilla


Bryan Visbal

Coming from a family well known in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, in a musical group called "Colores del Tiempo", composed of all Visbal Rosales brothers.

Jairo Penaranda

Jairo Alonso Penaranda (born June 15, 1958 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a former American football running back for the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.

Lotus seed

Lotus seeds are also very common in the northern part of Colombia, especially in cities like Barranquilla and Cartagena.

Pancho Coimbre

Later that year, he joined a team named El Torices, which was organized in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Rafael Simón Urbina

He went into exile in 1923, in Havana and Barranquilla, Colombia, before returning in 1925 following an amnesty.

Transport in Colombia

With the independence and the influences of the European Industrial Revolution the main way of transport in Colombia became the navigation mainly through the Magdalena River which connected Honda in inland Colombia, with Barranquilla by the Caribbean sea to the trade with the United States and Europe.

Aviation was born in Barranquilla with the creation of SCADTA in 1919 a joint venture between Colombians and Germans that delivered mail to the main cities of Colombia which later merged with SACO to form Avianca.


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Alberto Assa

In his weekly column El Rincón de Casandra (Cassandra’s Corner) (he adopted the pseudonym in an allusion to the priestess of the Greek Mythology), published in the El Nacional, del Caribe and El Heraldo newspapers, he defended and promoted culture and education in Barranquilla for more than 40 years.

Álvaro Cepeda Samudio

As with many of the core members of the Barranquilla Group, Cepeda Samudio began his career as a journalist, writing first, in August 1947, for El Nacional, where his first short stories were also published.

BAQ

Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (IATA airport code: BAQ) in Barranquilla, Colombia

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport

Many international tourists have to fly to one of Colombia's or Panama's largest airports (Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, Barranquilla or Panama City) to be able to reach the islands.

José María Córdova International Airport

International traffic departs from JMC towards destinations in the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Curaçao and Spain, The airport also serves domestic flights to most major Colombian cities such as Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta and San Andres Island.

Neurohydrodynamics

Salomón Hakim (June 4, 1929 in Barranquilla, Bogotá - May 5, 2011) was a Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher, and inventor.

Puerto Colombia

In the second half of the 20th century, Puerto Colombia faced a rapid decline, eclipsed by Barranquilla the capital of Atlantico.

SAM Colombia

In the second year of activities, SAM’s wings grew and began to embrace the world of the nearest Colombian cities with flights to Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Planeta Rica and Barranquilla.

Sikorsky S-40

Passenger carrying service was initiated on the November 19, 1931, with a S-40 piloted by Charles Lindbergh, flying from Miami, Florida to the Panama Canal Zone with stops at Cienfuegos, Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica and Barranquilla, Colombia.

Soledad, Atlántico

Bordered on the north by the special district of Barranquilla, where the boundary is the Arroyo Don Juan, on the south by Malambo, on the east with the Department of Magdalena, separated by the Magdalena River, and on the west by Galapa.

Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera

Finally, he promoted steam navigation over the Magdalena River, when he authorized in 1849 that exports could pass by the port of Barranquilla.

Water privatization in Colombia

It was followed by a second contract in Barranquilla in 1996 and more concessions in the next years in Santa Marta, Tunja, Montería, Palmira, Girardot, and Riohacha.


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