Review of the region: Barranquilla occupy the fourth place between the Colombian cities and first in the Caribbean Region. It has a diversified economy, with strength in the clusters of metalworking, logistic, energetic and managerial services, between others. It is characterized by its ethnic diversity due to the fact that it has been a center of immigrants' arrival.

• Climate: 27,4 º C in average
• Population Barranquilla projection 2011: 1.193.667 Inhabitants
• Population The Atlantic Ocean projection 2011: 2.344.077 Inhabitants
• PIB The Atlantic Ocean 2009: USD 11.490 million
• PIB per capita The Atlantic Ocean 2007: USD 5.226

Infrastructure: Barranquilla.

Barranquilla possesses the International airport Ernesto Cortissoz, one of the principal airports of the Country. It has an excellent road network that joins the city with other municipalities of the Department and with the rest of the country. It is the third maritime port of the country because of his location on the shore of the río Magdalena.

• Strategic Location: A strategic location on the Caribbean at only 2 hours and a half from The United States and at an hour from Panama, in an airplane.
• Port Infrastructure: More than 25 maritime, fluvial and air ports with facility to transport all kinds of load across different routes of connection with the rest of the country and of the world. Besides of a potential of construction of private terminuses in areas around the port.
• Human Resource: More than 20 institutions for the technical, professional and specialized formation, offering human qualified resource.
• Places for Business: Wide offer of offices, malls and more than 500 hectares in industrial parks, including 3 duty-free zones with all the technological facilities and with excellent costs.
• Quality of life: Quality in the provision of services of health, diversity in the educational offer, bilingual colleges, social clubs with all kinds of sports activities like golf and nautical sports, between others.

Potential Sectors

Automotive Industry

Opportunities in assemble of buses, trucks and light vehicles and autoparts - manufacture of parts for the segments of the interior of vehicles and electrical components.

• Connectivity to the North American market: Barranquilla's Port: Movement of Load 2010: 4.117.649 Tons - 12 % of the national total. 620 maritime frequencies. Port Multiintention that relies on 2 wharves that they allow to handle all kinds of load.
• Barranquilla's Duty-free zones and The Cayenne.
• Development of mass transit systems: Barranquilla - Transmetro.
• Recognized auto parts companies of world height: Saint Gobain.

Agri Industry

Opportunities in forest, lacteal and shrimp culture.

Forest

• Heights between 100 and 800 meters over the level of the sea, which turn out to be suitable for Teak, Melina, Ceiba, Acacia and Eucalyptus.
• More than 35,5 thousand hectares without restrictions for the forest investment and more than 40 thousand with minor restrictions located in municipalities of the Río Magdalena.

Dairy Products

• High levels of protein and fats.
• Nearness to maritime ports for the export.
• AFTOSA's free Cattle

Shrimp Culture

• 1.700 kilometers of coast on the Caribbean which offers the possibility to develop projects that do not degrade ecosystems like mangrove swamp and inlets.
• The Shrimp Industry in Colombia has a world class performance superior than Ecuador, the principal producer of Latin America. In the case of the semi-intensive one, the performance is of 6.000 kg / has / year and the average of survival is superior to 66 %. In intensive, the performance is 3.788 kilos / hectare / year.
• The Shrimp consumption per capita in Colombia has increased in a 2.000 % from the middle of 1995, in comparison with 47 % experienced on the whole world.

Cosmetics and Toiletries

Opportunities in distribution centers.

• Geographical strategic Location - Excellent Logistic Exporting Capacity into the Atlantic Ocean.

• Barranquilla's Port (Atlantic Ocean) - Movement of Load 2010: 4.117.649 Tons - 12 % of the national total. 620 maritime frequencies. Multi purpose Port that counts with 2 wharves that allow handling all kinds of load.

• Duty-free zones: 2 permanent duty-free zones of goods.

Tourism Infrastructure

• Opportunities in vacation tourism and incentives, congresses, conventions and golf.

• The Colombian Caribbean is a propitious destination to realize events of world height. Big centers of conventions surrounded with spectacular landscapes.

Vacation

• Carnaval de Barranquilla: Cultural Heritage of the humanity.

Incentives, Congresses, Conventions And Golf

• Magic Experiences: Castillo de Salgar in Puerto Colombia.
• Conventions Centers and 1 fairground enclosure. Capacity for more than 10.000 persons.
• Possesses 2 fields of 18 holes.

• Yara Internacional: It is a Norwegian multinational from the chemical industry. One of his plants is located in Barranquilla, where he attends the domestic and international market.
• Dupont: multinational Company of the American capital where its first plant was founded in Barranquilla, Colombia 45 years ago.
• Bayer: multinational German Company of the sector chemist - pharmacist. From the city he attends the Colombian market and some countries of South America.
• Mincom: It is a multinational company of the leading world capital in technological solutions for intensive companies in fixed assets.
• Manpower: American Multinational with experience in the provision of recruitment services, evaluation, outsourcing, consultancy and entertainment.
• Holcim: a Switzerland Company, one of the biggest cement plants of the world. In the Department of the Atlantic Ocean they possess a concretely production plant.
• Arcelor Mittal: French Company from the iron and steel sector. In Barranquilla they possess a center of services, and it commercializes flat products of steel for Colombia and the Andean market.
• Gecolsa: American leading Company in the manufacture of machinery for the construction and equipments of mined, diesel, engines of diesel, and industrial turbines of gas.
• Sonesta: In 2010 with an approximate investment of 25 billion of pesos, is inaugurate the Hotel Sonesta Barranquilla, whose operation will be in charge of the group GHL Hotels.
• Sutherland: Hindu company of BPO which selected Barranquilla to be his headquarters in Latin America and Colombia.