El Banco

onthemoon says on Dec 31, 2008, 12:09:

El Banco Magdalena?

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tropicalshirt says on Dec 31, 2008, 12:33:

Yes, El Banco Magdalena.

Just literally riverbank in Spanish. Barbudo is better now I know.

"Fishing and stock raising are the chief occupations, although small factories produce mattresses and brooms."

hhhmmmm.... Mattresses and brooms... Not quite thriving industries, but put the two together and El Banco could be a must see. Por favor, on the moon, DIGA!

"The conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quezada arrived at the site in 1537 and found the Indian village of Sompallón; he called it Barbudo (“Bearded One”) because of its bearded chief. In 1544 Alonzo de San Martín renamed it Tamalameque (now the name of a town a few miles to the southeast). In 1749 José Domingo Ortiz, a freed black slave carrying a statue of the Virgin Mary, led a group of settlers to the locality that became known as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de El Banco (“Our Lady of Candlemas of the Riverbank”). Fishing and stock raising are the chief occupations, although small factories produce mattresses and brooms. Pop. (2003 est.) 52,643." Encylopedia Brittania

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onthemoon says on Dec 31, 2008, 12:46:

mmm...si.. go!! visit!!

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onthemoon says on Dec 31, 2008, 12:47:

be careful with the paramilitares... they are around that area..=S

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