The Rise of Barranquilla
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3040391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodore E Nichols (0000-0002-4516-5103, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 158 |
| Publication date | 1954-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2509322 |
| OpenAlex | W2321641118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
T HE LEADING PORT of the north coast of South America is Barranquilla. Still an insignificant village when the neighboring ports of Cartagena and Santa Marta had been commercially and politically important for nearly three hundred years, it developed in the second half of the nineteenth century into Colombia's principal commercial entrepot. While there were many reasons for this phenomenon, the chief one was geographical. Barranquilla's situation on the Magdalena River and local transportation factors were the main determinants in its rise. A fundamental problem in Colombia has been the difficulty of moving people and goods between the Caribbean Sea and the interior of the country. For centuries the Magdalena River provided the main highway for travel between coast and interior, but the connections between its mouth and the coastal settlements were not convenient. Cartagena, situated on a nearly land-locked bay, had as its only natural means of communication with the interior a perennially silted
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1976 - 2023 (48) |
| Highly cited | No |