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SOCIAL STUDIES Population Density in Barranquilla

SOCIAL STUDIES Population Density in Barranquilla. Benjamín Payares González 4º Yellow Marymount School. Index. Where do I live ? Population Distribution Across Barranquilla Population Growth in Barranquilla. 1. Where do I live?.

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SOCIAL STUDIES Population Density in Barranquilla

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  1. SOCIAL STUDIESPopulationDensity in Barranquilla Benjamín Payares González 4º Yellow Marymount School

  2. Index • Where do I live? • PopulationDistributionAcross Barranquilla • PopulationGrowth in Barranquilla

  3. 1. Where do I live? • I live in Barranquilla, at Carrera 56 Nº 81-98, Edificio Gallery, Barrio el Golf . Mar Caribe Barranquilla Atlántico Océano Pacífico Atlántico

  4. Panoramic view of Barrio El Golf My house

  5. 2. PopulationDistributionAcross Barranquilla Barranquilla has a population of 1.148.506 people. Itisthefourthmostpopulatedcity in the country after Bogotá, Medellín and Cali. Thecityisthe central point of theMetropolitanArea, whichisformedby Soledad, Galapa, Malambo and Puerto Colombia. Thisarea has 1.821.517 peopletogether.

  6. 2. PopulationDistributionAcross Barranquilla

  7. 2. PopulationDistributionAcross Barranquilla The various quarters of the city are classified according to the 6 socioeconomic levels for residential property in Colombia. Levels 1 and 2 correspond to the southeast sector, southwest, northwest and northeast. Levels 3 and 4 to the south-central, the central and northern part, and levels 5 and 6 to the north. The 47.5% of the population is male and the remaining 52.5% is female. Approximately 57.9% of households have 4 or fewer people. 20.7% of the population aged 17 and over in Barranquilla are unmarried couples. 26.7% of the population of the city were born in another municipality and 0.4% in another country. 5.3% of the population in Barranquilla have some permanent limitation.

  8. 2. PopulationDistributionacross Barranquilla Ethnic composition 13.2% of the population living in Barranquilla recognized himself as raizal, palenquero, black, mulato, Afro-Colombian or Afro-descendant; to 0.1% as indigenous. To complete the ethnic composition, the city includes the Caucasian races and small Semite communities (Jews and Arabs in the Middle East). Education The education in the city is regulated by the Secretary of Education, Mayor District Dependence. The city offers the national education system in the levels of elementary, high school and university, as well as multiple technical and technological institutions. In recent decades, Barranquilla served the student population, who could nor pursue higher education studies in the absence of institutions in their places of origin, by receiving them from other parts of the coast and from the rest of the country. This situation tends to decrease in recent years due to the increased educational coverage achieved in these regions.

  9. 3. PopulationGrowth in Barranquilla Approximately 1,144,470 people live in the urban areas and 4,036 in rural areas. The population density is 6,918.71 habitants per square kilometer. Today, Barranquilla begins to regain the momentum and spirit that characterizes it. Its growth and progress help recover the much deserved title of “The Golden Gate of Colombia”. The rapid urban growth is generated because of the political and economic situation in Colombia, which makes the peasants move to the main cities in search of centers of economic development.

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