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Atlántico

Barranquilla

Barranquilla is the capital district of the Atlántico department in . It is located near the and is the largest city and third port in the ; as of 2018, it had a population of 1,206,319, making it Colombia's fourth-most populous city after , , and .
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  • Type: City with 1,330,000 residents
  • Description: capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia
  • Also known as: “Barrancas de San Nicolás”, “Barranquilla, Colombia”, “Colombia’s Golden Gate”, and “Quilla”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Romelio Martínez Stadium and Zoologico de barranquilla.

Stadium
Photo: Hdedea, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Estadio Romelio Martínez, or , is a sports stadium located at 72 street and 46 Avenue in the city of Barranquilla.

Zoo
Photo: Jdvillalobos, CC BY 3.0.

Square
Photo: Kikenzh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a square.

Barranquilla

Latitude
10.9939° or 10° 59′ 38″ north
Longitude
-74.7926° or 74° 47′ 33″ west
Population
1,330,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
Height
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
BAQ
United Nations Location Code
CO BAQ
Open location code
7727X6V4+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5399542329
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3689147
Wiki­data ID
Q62823
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Barranquilla” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Barranquilla”
  • Albanian: “Barranquilla”
  • Arabic: “البوابة الذهبية لكولومبيا”
  • Arabic: “بارانكويلا”
  • Arabic: “بارانكيا”
  • Arabic: “كويلا”
  • Armenian: “Բառանկիլյա”
  • Asturian: “Barranquilla”
  • Aymara: “Barranquilla”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barrankilya”
  • Balinese: “Barranquilla”
  • Basque: “Barranquilla”
  • Belarusian: “Баранкільля”
  • Belarusian: “Баранкілья”
  • Bengali: “বারানকুইলা”
  • Breton: “Barranquilla”
  • Bulgarian: “Баранкиля”
  • Catalan: “Barranquilla”
  • Cebuano: “Barranquilla”
  • Chechen: “Барранкилья”
  • Chinese: “巴兰基亚”
  • Chinese: “巴冷基也”
  • Chinese: “巴蘭基亞”
  • Chinese: “巴蘭幾亞”
  • Czech: “Barranquilla”
  • Danish: “Barranquilla”
  • Dutch: “Baranquilla”
  • Dutch: “Barranquilla”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارانكيلا”
  • Esperanto: “Barankilijo”
  • Esperanto: “Barankilo”
  • Esperanto: “Barranquilla”
  • Estonian: “Barranquilla”
  • Finnish: “Barranquilla”
  • French: “Aéroport Ernesto Cortissoz”
  • French: “Barranquilla, Atlantico”
  • French: “Barranquilla”
  • French: “Trinidad”
  • Galician: “Barranquilla”
  • Georgian: “ბარანკილია”
  • German: “Barranquilla”
  • Greek: “Μπαρρανκίγια”
  • Gujarati: “બેરેનક્વિલા”
  • Haitian: “Barranquilla”
  • Hebrew: “ברנקיה”
  • Hebrew: “ברנקייה”
  • Hindi: “बारेन्कीय”
  • Hindi: “बैरेंक्विला”
  • Hungarian: “Barranquilla”
  • Ido: “Barranquilla”
  • Indonesian: “Baranquilla”
  • Indonesian: “Barranquilla”
  • Irish: “Barranquilla”
  • Italian: “Barranquilla”
  • Japanese: “バランキージャ”
  • Japanese: “バランキジャ”
  • Japanese: “バランキヤ”
  • Japanese: “バランキリャ”
  • Kannada: “ಬರಾನ್ಕ್ವಿಲ್ಲಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Барранкилья”
  • Kirghiz: “Барранкилья”
  • Korean: “바란키야”
  • Korean: “바랑키야”
  • Kotava: “Barranquilla”
  • Kurdish: “Barranquilla”
  • Ladino: “Barranquilla”
  • Latvian: “Barrankilja”
  • Lingala: “Barranquilla”
  • Lithuanian: “Barankilija”
  • Lithuanian: “Barankilja”
  • Lithuanian: “Barranquilla”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Barranquilla”
  • Luxembourgish: “Barranquilla”
  • Macedonian: “Баранкиља”
  • Malagasy: “Barranquilla”
  • Malay: “Barranquilla”
  • Maltese: “Barranquilla”
  • Marathi: “बॅरनक्विला”
  • Moksha: “Барранкилья”
  • Nepali: “ब्यारेन्क्विला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Barranquilla (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Barranquilla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barranquilla”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barranquilla”
  • Norwegian: “Barranquilla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barranquilla”
  • Ossetian: “Баранкилья”
  • Ossetian: “Барранкилья”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਰਾਂਕੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਰਾਙਕੀਯਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Barranquilla”
  • Persian: “بارانکیا”
  • Persian: “بارانکیلا”
  • Persian: “بارانکییا”
  • Polish: “Barranquilla”
  • Portuguese: “Barranquilha”
  • Portuguese: “Barranquilla, Colombia”
  • Portuguese: “Barranquilla”
  • Portuguese: “Quilla”
  • Quechua: “Barranquilla”
  • Romanian: “Barranquilla”
  • Russian: “Баранкилья”
  • Russian: “Барранкилья”
  • Scots: “Barranquilla”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Barranquilla”
  • Serbian: “Barranquilla”
  • Serbian: “Баранкиља”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barranquilla”
  • Silesian: “Barranquilla”
  • Sinhala: “බරංකුඉලා, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “බරංකුඉලා”
  • Slovak: “Barranquilla”
  • Slovenian: “Barranquilla”
  • Spanish: “Barranquilla, Colombia”
  • Spanish: “Barranquilla”
  • Spanish: “Distrito Especial, Industrial y Portuario”
  • Spanish: “Killa”
  • Spanish: “La Arenosa”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Oro de Colombia”
  • Spanish: “Quilla”
  • Swedish: “Barranquilla”
  • Tagalog: “Barranquilla”
  • Tamil: “பறறஙகுயில்லா”
  • Tatar: “Барранкилья”
  • Telugu: “బరెన్కిలా”
  • Thai: “Barranquilla”
  • Thai: “บาร์รังกิยา”
  • Thai: “บาร์รังกียา”
  • Thai: “บาร์รันกียา”
  • Turkish: “Barranquilla (Atlántico)”
  • Turkish: “Barranquilla (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Barranquilla belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Barranquilla, Atlántico”
  • Turkish: “Barranquilla”
  • Ukrainian: “Барранкійя”
  • Ukrainian: “Барранкілья”
  • Urdu: “بارانکیلا”
  • Uzbek: “Barrankilya”
  • Venetian: “Barranquilla”
  • Vietnamese: “Barranquilla”
  • Vlaams: “Barranquilla”
  • Volapük: “Barranquilla”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barranquilla”
  • Welsh: “Barranquilla”
  • Western Frisian: “Barranquilla”
  • Western Panjabi: “بارانکولا”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴兰基亚”
  • Yoruba: “Barranquilla”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴冷基也”
  • “Barranquilla”

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