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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]
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 .
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.
Estadio Daniel Villa Zapata is a multi-use stadium in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. [2] It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was originally built in 1960 with a capacity of 6,000 people.
The Lebrija River originates at an altitude of 2,532 metres (8,307 ft) in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes to the northeast of Piedecuesta, Santander. [1] The Lebrija River, a confluence of the Suratá River and the Río de Oro, [5] [6] flows northward through the municipalities Girón, capital of Santander Bucaramanga, Lebrija and Sabana de Torres to flow into the Magdalena River ...
The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (zaques, zipas, iraca, and tundama) in the central Andean highlands of what is today Colombia before the Spanish conquest of northern South America.
Later, he was the leading executive (Gerente General) of the Instituto Nacional de Fomento Tabacalero (INTABACO). Castellanos was founder and publisher of the short-lived "La Nación Agrícola" magazine. Towards the end of his life, he was also a notary, judge and the president of the Directorio Conservador in Barrancabermeja, Santander.
La Expedición de Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada al Mar del Sur y la Creación del Nuevo Reino de Granada. Bogotá: Banco de la República. Pérez Riaño, Pablo Fernando (2021). La Encomienda de Chita, 1550–1650. Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Historia. In English. Arciniegas, Germán (1942).