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Barranquilla: capital of Atlántico dept
- Average Temperature : 90F
- Population : 1,400,000 people
Been founded in 1620 for indigenous that proceeded of a near town, Galapa, it owes their name to the ravine where it is located. Place where the natives traded their products to him long of the river Magdalena, and today in day city where its port quality on the Atlantic and the river Magdalena they transform it into place of constant development in industry and trade reason why have given him the name of Door of Gold of Colombia
Seaport in N Colombia, on the Magdalena River; population (1992) 1,018,800. Products include chemicals, tobacco, textiles, furniture, and footwear.
It is Colombia's chief port on the Caribbean and the site of Latin America's first air terminal 1919. This city features a major Carnival, considered the best in Colombia (Carnival is celebrated on the four days before Ash Wednesday, usually in February).
Giving the Atlantic Ocean Proximity to caribbean sea, it owns a lovely climate during a good part of the year, refreshing in a good way the trade winds travelling all along the territory. The highest elevation is 500 Mts. There are climatic extremes such humidity in the south. It rains at seasons, from may to june and from august to November,the average temperature in the daylight is 25 to 29C
 Baranquilla Carnival is a huge four-day party that sees the people of the city take to the streets for a dazzling display of colour, salsa and infectious revelry.
The queen of the carnival is chosen in the October of the previous year so that she can prepare herself for the demanding carnival schedule. Another important character who must be chosen is King Momo. Whoever plays this Dionysian figure has to be a pillar of the community, who has taken part in the carnival since his childhood and is well known for his carnival spirit.
For several Saturdays before carnival begins, dance troupes parade through the streets to rehearse their dances. The pre-carnival activities draw to a close at the end of January, when the carnival proclamation is read out. This is a law stating that everyone must enjoy themselves, dance and party wildly.
Saturday begins with the Battle of the Flowers and a float parade comprised of the greatest, most colourful creations. La Gran Parada is a day of masks and disguises. The queen and her entourage of princes and princesses dance through the streets accompanied by the best carnival band, who play gaitas (giant recorders) and beat out the carnival rhythms on drums.
Monday is marked by an Orchestra Festival, with Caribbean and Latin bands competing in an almighty sound-clash. Tuesday signals the end of carnival, announced by the burial of "Joselito Carnival", who is mourned, by everyone, with real tears.
It's ultimately the dancing which makes Baranquilla one of the best carnivals to visit in Latin America. Most of the dances are strongly influenced by African traditions, especially from the Congo. One of the greatest spectacles is the Garabato, or "Dance of the Sickle", in which sickle-carrying men and women in straw hats and white face-paint perform an allegorical dance about life and death. The Congo dance is also worth looking out for, if only to see the towering paper-flower headpieces some of the dignified-looking men have to wear.
This is one party you don't want to miss.
The Barranquilla Carnival is the second largest carnival in South America,
declared by the UNESCO, a historical world heritage.
Dance with our women, party all night long with the tambora and the gaita rythms, sensual dances of our afro-caribbean heritage.
Meet Beautiful Ladies from Barranquilla
Barranquilla’s streets are filled with all the bustle and motion of a Middle Eastern marketplace. One hears a strange mixture of languages in the crowded bars and cafes, where Chinese, Arabs, Americans, Frenchmen and Italians speak to each other, and where the Spanish of the native Colombian is sometimes drowned Out altogether in the conversation of the streets. There are few cities in the world more cosmopolitan and worldly than Barranquilla,and there are few cities where pleasures are more robust and where life is lived more fully and enthusiastically.
Zoo (Address Calle 77 # 68-40)the one more important of the country for their valuable one collection of different species in those that you they highlight the tropical birds and the primates.there are 550 animals of 140 species click to see more Information about here
Museum Antropólogicwhere he/she is a great collection of anthropological pieces, etnográficas and folclóricas
Romantic Museum: (Address Cra 54,Calle 15) This is an old mansion of republican style,granted by carmen freud ,a daugther of Julios freud,jewish german-north american men, who came to barranquilla at its very beginning where it is kept as a past time memory as a pastime memory, some objects from the city history. There remains, as a testimony of as epoch, the carnival queen disguises, a replica of the ancient street dubbed Camellon Abello, the Alfonoso Fuentemayor's typewriter with which the Nobel prize Garcia Marques wrote his fiction called la Hojarasca, some letters from simon Bolivar, photographs, discs and old newspapers collections
Customs Ancient Building (Via 40, Calle 39) Built in 1919 by English architect leslie arbouin, Customs building represents the importance of import and export business for the department, For so long it was abandoned until the decision was made to restore it, finishing works in 1994
Amira de la Rosa Theater ( Address: Cra 54 Calle 52)It is the Barranquilla's cultural business epicenter,It is located near the el Prado neighborhood and Abajo del rio neighborhood, It its modern compound theater works, paint exhibitions, musical perfor-mances and events of all kind are being performed the year around. The 17 Mts-wide x 88Mts-high theater backdrop,was painted by Alejandro Obregon, representing with live colors the Hombre Caiman legend. where he/she is a great collection of anthropological pieces, etnográficas and folclóricas
Bocas de Ceniza:It is called this way to the outlet of the river Magdalena in the Atlantic.
Park National Natural Island of Salamanca:With 21.000 héctareas of extension, is an exceptional playones formation, marshes and bosuqes in those that one is contained surprising animal life and vegetable where those proliferate caymen and stifle, migratory birds.
Events Barranquilla Colombia Jan 13 to Feb 20 2007 |
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| Jan 13 | “Lectura de Bando” |
| Jan 20. | “Noche de Comparsas” |
| Jan 21 | Fiesta de Danzas y Cumbias” |
| Feb 02 | “Coronación de la Reina del Carnaval
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| Feb 03 | “Noche de Orquestas “
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| Feb 04 | “ Coronación de los Reyes del
Carnaval de los Niños
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| Feb 09 | “Noche de Guacherna" |
| Feb 10 | Coronación de la Reina Popular y
el Rey Momo
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| Feb 11 | “Desfile del Carnaval de los Niños
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| Feb 17 | “Batalla de Flores”,Desfile del Rey Momo
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| Feb 19 | “Carnavalada Presentación de Comedias
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| Feb 20 | “Cierre Rumbero del Carnaval
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