Barranquilla: Come and meet her, I guarantee you will fall in love with her like so many who never forget her. It's a city that can make you happy by just greeting people. Those people who make the important part of their city because they possess an unparalleled genius that makes them protagonists of an incalculable heritage. From the moment we board a taxi and the driver gives us that verbal tourist guide so well-nourished over the years, the experience of his craft and the fact that we were born in that land makes it practically on the way down we get fired almost as old friends. This is Barranquilla, without selfishness and simplicity. It is a land of kind, caring people, who open their doors to all, who offer themselves and strangers, as if in their nature they had the innate pleasure of being an eternal host.

Location

Barranquilla is located north of the Atlantic Department in Colombia (South America). It is part of the Colombian coastal cities in the Caribbean region, near the Atlantic Ocean. It is accessible by land, air, sea or river.

Climate

Barranquilla has a mild climate of 29°c in the shade, in the winter months the sun doesn't hide like in the big cities, Barranquilla's winter comes down to rains, heavy torrential downpours that flood the city. There's no snow falling, and hail is a phenomenon and it happens between times. You don't lock people in to winter, here in Barranquilla you spend the rain and people go out to follow their routine. When it's summer the sun is inclement at certain times but nothing that exceeds a temperature of 45 degrees, you live well and have a good time with the weather.

Culture

Throughout the year, an interesting cultural activity is taking place in the city, the most representative of which is the Carnival of Barranquilla, one of the most celebrated popular festivals in Colombia. It is held annually during the four days prior to Ash Wednesday - Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Carnival Tuesday - usually in February or early March. In 2001 it was declared "Cultural Heritage of the Nation" by the National Congress of Colombia and in 2003 "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by Unesco.

In the city they have seats of various folk demonstrations such as dances, dances, songs, games, legends, tales and superstitions, among others, many of which reach their peak during Carnival.

Barranquilla is home to various cultural events such as art exhibitions, literary workshops, philosophical conversations, theater pieces, poetry days, dances, exhibitions, concerts and festivals, such as the Festival of Orchestra in the framework of Carnival and Barranquijazz. Since 1957, the Month Concert has been held, a space for the dissemination of classical music.

The culture is promoted in the city by the Barranquilla District Institute of Culture and Tourism, 191 attached to the Mayor's Office, and entities such as the Cayena Cultural Center of the University of the North, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Atlantic, the Cultural Center of Comfamiliar, Combarranquilla, the Barranquilla Carnival Foundation, the Bank of the Republic, the Alliance Colombo-French the Colombo-American Cultural Center, the Avianca Cultural Hall, the Luis Eduardo Nieto Arteta Corporation, which administers the Old Customs Cultural Complex, consisting of the Pilot Library of the Caribbean, the Pilot Children's Library of the Caribbean, the Atlantic Historical Archive and the Hans Federico Neuman Music Documentation Center; universities and colleges, among other cultural associations.

On airplane

Ernesto Cortizzos Airport.

• International: Direct to and from Miami and Panama City.
• Nationals: To all cities in the country that have an airport

By boat

• Tourist fleets arriving in the city of Cartagena and from there only 90 minutes by land via the waterway

By bus

• Transport Terminal

By car

From:

• Cartagena at 90 Minutes
• Santa Marta 1 hour away
• Cities like Medellín, Bogotá, the journey takes approximately 15 hours.

By bus

The value is COP 2200, Sundays and holidays COP 2300.

In Transmeter

The value is COP 2300, Sundays and holidays COP 2400.

By taxi

The minimum run is $5,000. From the north to the airport it costs $20,000.

Tobacco Powder Snake, endemic to Colombia, at Barranquilla Zoo.

• Barranquilla's Carnival, held every 40 days before Lent, is recognized as the second largest after Rio de Janeiro's in Brazil. It is organized by Carnaval S.A., based in the Casa del Carnaval, in the Lower Quarter. It's 4 days when the barranquillero forgets everything and goes out to enjoy his party in the heat of beer, party and a lot of rumba. At least once in his life he must be at a carnival. For the next few years, the dates are:

• 2014: 27 February to 20 March
• 2015: 12-15 February

• Be sure to visit the Caribbean Cultural Center, where the roots of the Caribbean land are shown exploring its diverse regions as well as the cultural variety it represents.

• Also visit the Paseo Bolivar, located in the historic center of the city, as well as the Old Customs Building, the Cultural Center of the Caribbean and the Old Fedecafé Old building must be the Old Cultural Center of the Caribbean.

• Barranquijazz: Recognized as the largest Jazz and Latin Jazz festival in Latin America, the traveler should visit Barranquilla in the second week of September, when Barranquijazz takes place. The sites of this festival are: Amira de la Rosa Theater, La Plaza de la Paz, Universidad del Norte, Buenavista Shopping Center, Romelio Martinez Stadium

• Plaza de la Paz: One of Barranquilla's most important squares is located across from Barranquilla Cathedral and Portal del Prado Mall. One of the characteristics of this square is, in addition to hosting various public events, the pigeons show that usually go around the square. It can be reached from anywhere in the city thanks to the TransMetro System, using a route that stops at the 'La Catedral' station.

• Roberto Melendez Metropolitan Stadium: The usual seat of the 'Atletico Junior' Football Club and the Colombian National Football Team, where these two teams play the Postobón Cup (National Professional Football League) and the FIFA World Cup Elimination Tournament.

• Amira de la Rosa theater

Located in a strategic and traditional sector of the city where the traditional El Prado, Montecristo and Abajo neighborhoods meet, as well as scenarios such as the Humberto Perea Coliseum, the Carnival House, the Olympic pool and several universities, the Amira de la Rosa theater has played an important role in cultural dissemination since 1982, being a space for talks, presentations, meetings, concerts and exhibitions.

Museums

• Romantic Museum. Located in a republican mansion in the district of El Prado where objects representative of the city's history are shown. From costumes on the Carnival queens to a replica of the old Abello chameleon, to the typewriter with which Gabriel García Márquez wrote his first novel, La Hojarasca. There are also letters from the Liberator Simón Bolívar, photographs, records, collections of archival newspapers, among other elements that identify the history of the city.
• Museum of the Caribbean. Main axis of the Caribbean Cultural Park.
• Anthropological and Ethnological Museum. Located in the building of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Atlantic. It features a comprehensive collection of pieces from indigenous cultures that inhabited the region. It also provides a bar, reading room and exhibitions.
• Museum of Modern Art. Since 1996, it has been working on an important selection of works by several of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century. Its collection, which for reasons of space remains in reserve, is presented to the public through temporary exhibitions and includes works by renowned authors such as Fernando Botero, Alejandro Obregón, Enrique Grau or Luis Caballero. To be transferred to the Caribbean Cultural Park in the second phase of that project.192 193
• Aeronautical Museum. Located at the ARC Naval School of Non-commissioned Officers, founded in 1989 in homage to the Barranquilla's commercial aviation momentum in the early 20th century.
• Museum of the Atlantic. Located in the former headquarters of the Atlantic Governorate, building declared a national monument by the Ministry of Culture. It has 3,200 square meters, and also serves as a parallel headquarters for the municipalities of Atlántico.194
• Carnival Museum. Barranquilla Carnival Foundation project in partnership with Caribbean Cultural Park and the Caribbean Museum. Opened on April 7, 2011, in its first stage with the Elsa Caridi Carnival Hall. It is located in the Carnival House in the Lower Quarter.195

Sunset on the beach of barranquillera.

• Salgar, Puerto Velero, Puerto de Colombia, Playa Mendoza among others

• Sombrero Vueltiao, declared Cultural Symbol of the Nation by the Colombian Congress (Search for originals from the population of Tuchín and others from the department of Sucre).
• Cuscan or cassava bun with cheese (colloquially known as "marriage").
• Butifarra soledeña (This is a casual street sale, where it is usually sold accompanied by lemon and Bollo de yuca, and industrialized, in any distributor of Cunit.
• Guinean or green banana Patation with 'coastal' cheese or drowning.
• Arepa e' Egg (Often sold with meat too, an equally delicious variant)
• Made from the dough obtained from cassava starch, Caribaola is usually stuffed with chicken, meat or grated cheese, although it is possible to find other variants in other parts of the Colombian Caribbean, such as Riohacha, where it is possible to find cuttings filled with fish.

Shopping malls

Shopping malls can be found in the northern part of the country in barranquilla:

• Buenavista shopping center (1 and 2, linked by a bridge)
• American Business Center
• Single Mall
• Prado portal shopping center
• Viva shopping center
• Miramar Mall
• " Country Village Mall"

The typical city dish is lisa rice, served with cassava bun. Very characteristic of local cuisine are also sancocho de guandú with salted meat; the butyfarra; the clean, unclean, unclean, corncobs of angelito; coastal cheese; fried as varieties of arepas, of which egg is the most important, caribou, empanadas, pies, patacón, fritters of black frijol and tender corn and quibbe; the rice of black frijol, noodles, chipichipi and cucayan; beverages such as raspao, boli, panela water, corozo, tamarindo, zapote and nispero juices; sweets such as joy, sandwiches, crockery, cooked foods and Easter sweets; wrapped like cake and hayaca; fishes such as bocachico en cabrito or frito, mojarra and lebranche; shrimp and oyster cocktails; rib, tail, bone, scoundrel, triphasic (with beef, chicken and pork), mondongo and creole chicken sausages; and the much-wanted chicharron.207 208 209

It is significant the gastronomic offer of the city, in which restaurants can be enjoyed from Creole cuisine to several of the most important international gastronomy, such as the Syrian-Lebanese (due to the significant presence of descendants of Middle Eastern immigrants), the Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian, Peruvian, French, Italian, Spanish, seafood, fast, vegetarian, fusion cuisine, grilled among others.

Even the seafront promenades are part of these hot months and you can enjoy a wide variety of tropical fruits that flood every corner of Barranquilla. Barranquilla is cool, and its people much more!

International cuisine is on offer:

• Doña Linda, (Arabic Food)
• Benito Juarez (Mexican Food)
• Al sultan, (Gourmet Arabic Food)
• [1], (broilers)
• [2], (plates of the sea)

Dann Carlton hotel

• Hotel Country International. Race 52 # 75-30, Barranquilla. email: [email protected] http://www.countryinthotel.com
• Hotel Dann Carlton, located in front of the Buenavista Shopping Center, near the beach, in the north of the city.

Salgar Castle, 20 minutes from Barranquilla.

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Playa de puerto sailing Located 45 minutes from Barranquilla, it also has a water park.