Barranquilla

Barranquilla is a city on ’s northern Caribbean coast. It is close to the Magdalena River’s mouth, where the river flows into the Caribbean Sea.
  • City with 1,330,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 24 metres (79 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code BAQ
  • Description: capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia
  • Also known as
    “Barrancas de San Nicolás”
    “Barranquilla, Colombia”
    “Colombia’s Golden Gate”
    “Quilla”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Romelio Martínez Stadium and Museo del Carnaval.
The Estadio Romelio Martínez, or Romelio Martínez…
Jdvillalobos, Public domain.
The Queen Mary Cathedral also called Metropolitan…

Barranquilla

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Latitude
10.9939° or 10° 59′ 38″ north
Longitude
-74.7926° or 74° 47′ 33″ west
UN/LOCODE
CO BAQ
Open location code
7727X6V4+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Barranquilla” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Barranquilla”
  • Albanian: “Barranquilla”
  • Amharic: “ባራንኪላ”
  • Arabic: “البوابة الذهبية لكولومبيا”
  • Arabic: “بارانكويلا”
  • Arabic: “بارانكيا”
  • Arabic: “كويلا”
  • Armenian: “Բառանկիլյա”
  • Asturian: “Barranquilla”
  • Aymara: “Barranquilla”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barrankilya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barranquilla”
  • 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: “巴蘭基亞”
  • Chinese: “巴蘭幾亞”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Barrankilya”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Barranquilla”
  • Hebrew: “ברנקיה”
  • Hebrew: “ברנקייה”
  • Hindi: “बारांकिया”
  • Hindi: “बेरानकिला”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Barranquilla”
  • Kannada: “ಬರಾನ್ಕ್ವಿಲ್ಲಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “بارانکیلا”
  • 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”
  • Mongolian: “Барранкилья”
  • Nepali: “ब्यारेन्क्विला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Barranquilla (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Barranquilla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barranquilla”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barranquilla”
  • Norwegian: “Barranquilla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barranquilla”
  • Oromo: “Barranquilla”
  • Ossetian: “Баранкилья”
  • Ossetian: “Барранкилья”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਰਾਂਕੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਰਾਙਕੀਯਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Barranquilla”
  • Persian: “باراکویلا”
  • Persian: “بارانکیا”
  • Persian: “بارانکیلا”
  • Persian: “بارانکییا”
  • Polish: “Barranquilla”
  • Portuguese: “Barranquilha”
  • Portuguese: “Barranquilla, Colombia”
  • Portuguese: “Barranquilla”
  • Portuguese: “Quilla”
  • Pushto: “باراکویلا”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Barranquilla”
  • Spanish: “Barranquilla, Colombia”
  • Spanish: “Barranquilla”
  • Spanish: “Bquilla”
  • Spanish: “Distrito Especial, Industrial y Portuario”
  • Spanish: “Killa”
  • Spanish: “La Arenosa”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Oro de Colombia”
  • Spanish: “Quilla”
  • Swahili: “Barranquilla”
  • Swedish: “Barranquilla”
  • Tagalog: “Barranquilla”
  • Tajik: “Барранкийя”
  • Tajik: “Барранкилья”
  • 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: “بارانکویلا”
  • 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”

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