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Encyclopedia Britannica



BARRANQUILLA

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 431 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BARRANQUILLA , a city and port of
Colombia
 ,
South
  America,
capital
  of a province of the same name in the department of Atlantico, on the left bank of the Magdalena river about 7 M. above its mouth and 182 m. by rail from its seaport, Puerto
Colombia
 . Pop. (est. 1902) 31,000. Owing to a dangerous bar at the mouth of the Magdalena the
trade
  of the extensive territory tributary to that river, which is about 6o % of that of the entire country, must pass in
great
  part through Barranquilla and its seaport, making it the
principal
  commercial centre of the republic. Savanilla was used as a seaport until about 1890, when shoals caused by drifting sands compelled a removal to Puerto Colombia, a short distance westward, where a steel pier, 4000 ft. in length; has been constructed to facilitate the handling of freight. The navigation of the Magdalena is carried on by means of light-
draught
  steamboats which ascend to Yeguas, 14 M. below Honda, where goods are transhipped by rail to the latter place, and thence by
pack
  animals to Bogota, or by smaller boats to points farther up the river. Barranquilla was originally founded in 1629, but attracted no attention as a commercial centre until about the middle of the 19th century, when efforts were initiated to secure the
trade
  passing through Cartagena. The city is built on a low plain, is regularly laid out, and has many fine warehouses, public buildings and residences, but its greater part, however, consists of mud-walled cabins supported by bamboo (guadua) framework and thatched with rushes. The water-
supply
  is
drawn
  from the Magdalena, and the city is provided with telephone, electric light and tram services. Owing to periodical inundations, the surrounding country is but little cultivated, and the greater part of the population, which is of the mixed type common to the low-lands of Columbia, is engaged in no settled productive occupation.


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