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.

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."

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.