Barranquilla is located on the Caribbean coast of Colombia between Cartagena and Santa Marta and is the carnival capital of Colombia. It’s energetic and colourful street parades and parties are internationally renowned during the annual carnival period.

Barranquilla was the first maritime port to be established in Colombia and is still one of the most important in the country. As a result of the city being a major shipping port, it displays a wonderful cosmopolitan culture of people from all over the world, living harmoniously and who warmly invite all visitors to enjoy their coastal city.
In addition to Barranquilla’s rich cultural and industrial past, its surrounding landscapes offer the perfect canvass on which to participate in eco-pursuits such as diving the colourful coral-reefs that line the coast, fishing exotic species such as marlin and tarpon and exploring coastal cave-systems. For family visits, there is the Barranquilla zoo which showcases the animal-life which can be found right across Colombia’s many diverse regions.
 

The culture of Barranquilla is a deep ethnically diverse mix of people from across the globe, due to the last few centuries which have seen the port become one of the most important trading ports in South America. Traders would arrive, become enchanted by the city and settle on its Caribbean coastline.