Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Barrancabermeja (Spanish: [baraŋkaβeɾˈmexa]) is a municipality and city in Colombia, located on the shore of the Magdalena River, in the western part of the department of Santander. It is home to the largest oil refinery in the country, under direct management of ECOPETROL. Barrancabermeja is known as the Oil Capital of Colombia. [3]
Yariguíes Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Yariguíes, IATA: EJA, ICAO: SKEJ) is an airport serving Barrancabermeja, a city in the Santander Department of Colombia. The airport is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of the city. The airport was renovated in 2013 at a cost of $13 million pesos.
Agreement 023 of 8 February 1965, by which the name Daniel Villa Zapata was given to the Barrancabermeja football stadium. Among the names it may have had were Estadio Alicia I, [ 5 ] in honor of the city's first sports queen [ 6 ] and Oro Negro stadium, term by which oil is also known.
The demographics of Colombia consist of statistics regarding Colombians' health, economic status, religious affiliations, ethnicity, population density, and other aspects of the population.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barrancabermeja (Latin: Barrancabermeiensis) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral del Sagrado Corazón, dedicated to the Sacred Heart , in the city of Barrancabermeja in Santander State , Colombia .
During the Spanish American wars of independence, the United States was officially neutral but permitted Spanish American agents to obtain weapons and supplies.With the reception of Manuel Torres in 1821, Colombia became the first "former" Spanish colony recognized by the United States, and the United States was the second government (after the Kingdom of Brazil) to recognize an independent ...
Climate data for Chiriguaná, elevation 40 m (130 ft), (1981–2010) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
The global stock of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) between 2005 and 2009 consisted exclusively of all-electric cars (), totaling about 1,700 units in 2005, and almost 6,000 in 2009.