Talk:Barranquilla

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[edit] carnaval

who claims that the so called "carnaval de Barranquilla" is just second to Rio? There are thousands of carnival festivities in the world. I dont know a ranking containing all of them. Where are the sources of this? They dont mention anything about the increasing poverty levels (70% of the population) and that the "golden gate" of Colombia is just a name because the main colombian harbor is in Buenaventura and the second one in Cartagena de Indias. They dont mention anything about the real documentated history of the city and how after being a model during the 1950´s became slowly in a just a big city without any organization.

Please sign your comments, otherwise discussion doesn't work very well. No doubt the remarks you note were inserted by a local resident - it is common for locality pages to attract a bit of boosterism of this sort. If you think they are inflated (I don't know enough about Colombia to say, myself), I suggest that you edit the page to say something like "Local residents believe that the carnaval de Barrnquilla is second only to that in Rio, but the evidence for this is unclear". And similarly for the other points you make - i.e. don't obliterate the previous editor's view, but put in something to balance it. seglea 4 July 2005 17:25 (UTC)

• Barranquilla's carnival is second to the brazilian carnival by determination of the UNESCO. It was declared: masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity. It's also considered part of Colombia's National Heritage.

UNESCO LINK Don Quijote's Sancho

[edit] Barranquilla article in general

The article lacks a proper intro and sounds more of a POV of barranquilla refering to the city. It has two intros, which I don't see necessary! and has more information that the rest of the article. It's very disorganized and doesn't have any sources.-- Don Quijote's Sancho 15:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

"Barranquilla's peaceful territory is an isle amid Colombia's political problems" WOW! the pearl of POV's! --Don Quijote's Sancho 15:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC) It's true that the article needs some rephrasing. However, Barranquilla is not directly dealing with the most mediatised political problems in Colombia. ---moyogo 22:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

If you know some spanish, please feel free to visit local news #1 or local news #2. In case you don't understand spanish, the images will speak for themselves. --Don Quijote's Sancho 18:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

There's crime and violent accidents in every city. What we need is some kind of statistics from a credible source. If we can cite such a source instead of just conveying a general impression, the article will be much more credible itself. ---moyogo 06:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

in the schools thers the international berckley school is a bilingual school

Barranquilla is called the "golden gate" because acording to the article it was the first in having many thnigs that other cities didn't have.although Barranquilla's harbor is not NOW the biggest but, it was the biggest one in his time, and was the first one in Colombia. And about the bad news about Barranquilla every cities eventhough being the most importants in the world have many problems about security. is that clear Mogoyo?

please everybody don't look for bad things about other cities look for the good in yours, or is that yours doesn't have any possitive to say about?

The COLEGIO AMERICANO DE BARRANQUILLA is one of the best school in Barranquilla and one of the oldest ones, i think the oldest one (117 years old) important people grauated from it, the examples are Estercita Forero, Ernesto Cortizos, Romelio martinez amoung others that have been important personalities for the Barranquilla's comunity.