Barranquilla

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A large port city in northern Colombia by the Caribbean Sea

proper noun

: Barranquilla

Now, what you're gonna do is a layover in Miami, and then you're gonna fly to Barranquilla.
Barranquilla, Colombia

Colombia had a clandestine Nazi party in Barranquilla in the Caribbean coast.

Examples

And they were at that point they were working out of Barranquilla, but they're originally from Cali, from the Cali area.
According to Robin Fiddian, the city in El amor is a composite of Cartagena de Indias, Santa Marta, Barranquilla, and other locations on the Caribbean coast (192).

Academic text (1991)
I go to Bogota and Barranquilla, and I have lots of friends.

Green Fire (1954)
But the crates, they come back to Barranquilla.

Miami Vice (2006)
Out of Barranquilla.

Miami Vice (2006)
One was presented at the Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in Barranquilla, Colombia, 26-30 May 1997.

Academic text (1999)
An informant has revealed that a freighter departed Barranquilla for South Florida with plans to transship contraband to go-fast boats in broad daylight one day next week off the coast of Miami.

Miami Vice (2006)
Sofa was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Bush landed without incident at the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla and transferred immediately to a helicopter for the 60-mile flight to Cartagena.
From his home in Barranquilla, Colombia, Renteria listened to baseball scouts interested in signing him.

Surface Forms

Barranquilla main

Etymology

Barranquilla comes from the Spanish barranca meaning 'ravine' or 'riverbank' and the ending -illa meaning 'little'. So, the name pictures a 'little ravine' at the river mouth, which helps you remember that Barranquilla is a port city where the Magdalena River meets the Caribbean Sea.