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Barrancabermeja is a municipality whose area, population, altitude and other important information is provided below.
For all your administrative procedures, you can go to the Barrancabermeja town hall at the address and times indicated on this page, or contact the town hall reception by phone or email according to your preference and available data. It is located in the department of Santander.

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The village of llanito is located in the municipality of Barrancabermeja, Santander. Its population, 90%, is fishing and it is this artisanal activity on which its economy is based. The llanito has become over the years a tourist focus of the municipality and department for its fishing cuisine, considering it the best in the city. The Llanito fishing port is a project that seeks to weave the territory and organize the community by strengthening the relationships of the inhabitants, fishermen and tourists.

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A place located on the banks of the Magdalena River that runs through the hot lands of the ‘Beautiful Daughter of the Sun’, it has long served as an economic, social and tourist engine throughout the region.
Despite all the difficulties it has had to face, it has managed to stay current. This generates great displays of affection and affection not only on the part of the Barranqueños but of all the people who were born or who live in Magdalena Medio. This emblematic place is the dock of Puerto Petrolero.

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It was inaugurated on December 7, 1995, the oil Christ was donated by Ecopetrol S.A to beautify Barrancabermeja. With a height of 26 meters and a weight of 20 tons, the sculpture was designed by Fernando Fernández, a worker for the oil company in that city, and built together with 20 other workers. Fernández defined the work as "a risen Christ, who has the twelve apostles at his feet and whose function is to bless Barrancabermeja and give life to the swamp."

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It is located a few kilometers north of the city, communicates Barrancabermeja in the department of Santander with Yondó in the department of Antioquia. It was inaugurated in 2006. The name is taken from Guillermo Gaviria Correa, who was the governor of the Antioqueños.
It is a place where the stop is a must to see the beautiful sunsets of the Oil Capital on the Magdalena River.

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In the municipality of Barrancabermeja, which is reached after a 120 km trip west from Bucaramanga, visitors can learn about the processes of extraction, treatment and distribution of oil. There, in the National Petroleum Museum, about 450 pieces are exhibited, including photographs and maps, which help explain the fundamentals of this industry.

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La Pollera Colorá is a cumbia, considered one of the most emblematic songs in Colombian musical history. Perhaps many Barranqueños do not know that the Pollera Colorá —after the national anthem— is the musical theme that most identifies us Colombians around the world.
Its inspiration and creation took place in the Barrancabermeja at the beginning of the 60s, one of the most beautiful times in our local history, where the city took off economically and commercially and it was clear to its inhabitants that the city project for our land was totally viable
It was the final years of the 1950s and Barrancabermeja was experiencing its ‘golden age’.

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At the end of the 18th century (1884) and the beginning of the 19th century, the parents of the Society of Jesus, based in the city of Barranquilla, accompanied an evangelizing process for this area of ​​Colombia, called the Magdalena River Mission. They mainly visited to catechize and celebrate the sacraments. With the missionaries' visits, some parishes were consolidated along the Magdalena River. Towards the end of 1923, Fr. Efraín Fernández presented the proposal for the creation of the Apostolic Prefecture in Magdalena Medio, in order to organize ecclesiastical jurisdiction and to facilitate missionary work. On April 2, 1928, His Holiness Pius XI, through the execution of the Apostolic Bull "Dominici Gregis Regiminis", erected the Prefecture of the Magdalena River, separating it from the Diocese of Santa Marta, Nueva Pamplona and Socorro and San Gil, entrusting its government to the Society of Jesus of the Colombian Province. The new Apostolic Prefecture began on September 9, 1928, the day of San Pedro Claver; the first Apostolic Prefect was Monsignor Carlos Hilario Correa.

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The least unusual in the city of Barrancabermeja was the railroad, it was a very popular means of transport in the 60s, 70s and 80s but today it is nothing more than a gloomy vestige of what it once was. This traditional monument located on the avenue circumvalar is a tribute to the railway not only in Barrancabermeja but throughout Colombia, unfortunately, the appearance of the monument today leaves much to be desired and has become a garbage collection for the inhabitants of the sector. The years have not gone down well with the locomotive.

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Francisco Suárez Serrano and Álvaro Pérez Vides

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Francisco Suárez Serrano and Álvaro Pérez Vides

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Francisco Serrano from ENLACE TELEVISION and Álvaro Pérez from TELEPETROLEO have managed to consolidate their television stations with much sacrifice and effort, these being today companies that constitute an example of organization, dedication and strength. Don Francisco Serrano, is a 51-year-old industrial mechanic, born in the municipality of Zapatoca (Santander).
Francisco Serrano highlights the financial support provided to the channel by merchants from Barranquilla, the Municipal Mayor's Office and the Colombian Petroleum Company, ECOPETROL.
On his side Álvaro Pérez Vides, founder of the TELEPETROLEO channel, is a man from Barranquilla who lived his childhood and youth in Commune 4 in the LIPM neighborhood. The lack of opportunities, injustices and inequality that he had to perceive since childhood motivated him as a young man to join the M-19 militias, however, when this insurgent group decided to lay down its arms and take advantage of an amnesty offered as part of the peace negotiation, in 1990, Álvaro Pérez decided to rejoin civil life and studied Social Communication at the National University at a distance, obtaining his professional title.
In return for his reintegration, he requests the Ministry of Communications and the National Television Commission for authorization to start up a television station in Barrancabermeja, documents that he processes before the high government through a non-governmental organization called Corporación Arco Iris. , NGO that today manages the channel.
Álvaro Pérez has also had to face various problems to organize the channel in the company of his wife, Doña Diosalba Martínez Lozano, who is considered by everyone to be her right hand.
ENLACE TELEVISION and TELEPETROLEO are two totally different channels, each one, from its point of view, with a different vision of Barrancabermeja. Here we only highlight the contribution that as a television channel each one has made with the city.

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https://www.diocbarranca.org.co/historia
https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/handle/10554/40281
https://www.vanguardia.com/santander/barrancabermeja/el-muelle-es-una-bendicion-de-dios-IL1580578
https://www.municipios.com.co/sitio/1609/el-cristo-petrolero
https://www.barrancabermeja.gov.co/publicaciones/403/monumento-a-la-pollera-colora/
https://colombia.travel/es/bucaramanga/visita-el-museo-nacional-del-petroleo?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=2b481d7535928eda6d45536146a955d9534ce8ed-1621208164-0-AX-FJyksBOcK6PhS30Ooygx3gSbxswtXmKNH6-GR3mpuxGLEDfcW0aL0siMCu4u6_8JMOZxVa4-bjeGjjODlankpltSAEEeSFm0Lkr26xCM7ygJyh-R25VGl_92Wp2u8z8Z6GnA1sumcj0Xc3OJLHIbHm8vQUYVU6NynJA8pwuP4uvYIzHzabvIsd5xp68PS87adaT_ByZ7d23VDrTaN6_m-lx2DL7FJWaoesZy16Ztl7NbZGraoYc4Ex3dIEhSa8cmZu2c2LZDv8e23I5ZJ-IaFIT9XliR0uJwuQaAel0cwjtp6BlrbhkC67hp6p1eIsvrxxwQDxwk8XHWPSeyg4rFbsZaqZ81WI7ATnNcSlGFh5_wNY8_5dMLROC0IAou7b6QTFKuwsqnApTWLM8gGqCGKsG4cwz5YrEaDPPoaUvjnYDjjDlTc3LUIE0_v_u2Sx0AQ3-Pxvl4has2rs1RYoCo
https://barrancabermejavirtual.net/2010/12/06/100-personajes-91-al-100/

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M: Good morning everyone, my name is María Fernanda Cancelado and today I will be your tourist guide, along with my colleagues, Valentina Gutiérrez and Kenneth Zambrano.

V: We will accompany you throughout the tour, any concerns, do not hesitate to contact us. Now I would really appreciate it if you would follow my partner to take you to the box office.

K: Please join me, with your tickets ready, you will go to the next bus and we will start this tour.

M: We will start this tour in this park called "Children's Park" and then we will know more places.

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V: Our first place is Enlace Televisivo. It is a local Colombian television channel, created in 1994. The channel covers the city of Barrancabermeja in the department of Santander and its surroundings.

M: It broadcasts eighteen hours a day of programming, most of it educational and cultural.

K: Please get on the bus for our next destination. Thanks.

K: This monument the Locomotive is recognized by the Ministry of Culture as a national heritage, like other locomotives in the country.

V: Being so old, the structure has been showing signs of deterioration, which put it at risk of collapse. Fortunately, the authorities took measures in this regard, avoiding damage or accidents.

M: Our next destination is the monument to the Pollera Colorá. It has its roots and strong significance in the Barranqueña region, due to the famous cumbia that bears his name and was composed in this land.

K: Its inspiration and creation took place in Barrancabermeja in the early 60s, one of the most beautiful times in our local history, where the city took off economically and commercially.

V: As has been said, the melody of the Pollera Colorá was inspired by a woman named Mirna Pineda aka "The wonderful brunette." La Pollera Colorá initially became a great musical success in the oil port of Barrancabermeja.

M: Now the next destination. This huge monument is the Cristo Petrolero. Inaugurated on December 7, 1995, the Christ of oil was donated by Ecopetrol to beautify Barrancabermeja.

K: The sculpture was designed by Fernando Fernández, a worker for the oil company in that city, and built together with 20 other workers.

V: Fernández defined the work as "a risen Christ, who has the twelve apostles at his feet and whose function is to bless Barrancabermeja and give life to the swamp."

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K: And very close to this monument, we can find the Cathedral of La Inmaculada. On December 8, 1969, the then bishop, Monsignor Bernardo Arango, transferred his chair to this parish; the sacred heart to the immaculate.

M: The Cathedral of the Immaculate has been designed for the construction of a Christian community, strengthening the values ??and love of Christ.

V: Now our next destination is the pier. Our traditional pier located on the Magdalena River. A large part of the population of the Colombian north coast arrived in this sector and many riverside populations arrived in our city attracted by the so-called "black gold rush".

M: Between the 40s, 50s and 60s of the last century, the Barrancabermeja pier had its maximum splendor. However, it was from the 70s, when the port activity in our river decreased.

K: The national government took 40 years to understand that «the Magdalena River is the best offer for the transport of products and merchandise due to its low cost and the immense capacity of the tugboats, which is much greater than that of the treated mule that circulates in national highways »

V: For this reason, in the coming months a modern and functional multimodal dock was inaugurated in the northern sector of the Barrancabermeja refinery that will reactivate the river economy of our municipality.

M: The next place is the Petroleum Museum. Its construction began a year earlier, in 1983, when the psychologist Miguel Ángel Santiago had the idea of ??creating a place that would collect what is still preserved from the beginnings of the oil industry in Barrancabermeja and in exploration areas such as the village of El Center.

K: This is how Samuel Scheneider Uribe, who worked as Deputy Manager of Ecopetrol in El Centro, transferred his contacts to move those old equipment to the museum, once its facilities were adequate.

V: Since its inauguration, 26 years ago, the Petroleum Museum has housed 13 of the machines that were used in the first years of oil exploration, in the El Centro and Casabe fields, in addition to the photographs and illustrations of the exploration process, oil production and refining.

K: In this tour we can find the history of the origin of oil, the equipment used for its refining, including the history of the first refinery that existed, built in 1906 by General Virgilio Barco, in Tibú, Norte de Santander.

V: Now we will go to the great Bridge. This bridge has been awarded nationally and internationally, it was built over the navigable channel of the Magdalena River, the most important fluvial channel in Colombia.

M: This Bridge connects Barrancabermeja in the department of Santander with Yondó in the department of Antioquia and its inauguration was made in 2006.

V: And as you can see, it is a place where the stop is a must to see the beautiful sunsets of the Oil Capital on the Magdalena River.

K: And to conclude this incredible tour, we will visit a place where over the years it has become a tourist focus of the municipality and department for its fishing cuisine, considering it the best in the city.

M: The plain. This fishing port is a project that seeks to weave the territory and organize the community to strengthen the relations of the inhabitants through fishermen and tourists.

K: Here you can taste the typical dish of the region, fish in all forms.

V: El Llanito is a district 19 kilometers from Barrancabermeja where 4 thousand people live, including 350 fishermen who seek their daily sustenance in the swamp.

M: Well that was it, thank you for joining us on this tour and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Bye.