Seaside park near the main tourist jetty.

Buenaventura is located in the department of Valle del Cauca of Colombia in South America. Buenaventura is on the Pacific Ocean coast and it is the main Pacific port for Colombia. It is a city with a population of 324,207;[1] 2005 census (most of city development lies on Cascajal Island) and it is the size of Los Angeles' metropolitan area; most of the city's land is rural with scattered small villages throughout. It is located a few miles from the western cordillera of the Andes mountain range and the major city of Cali, the department's capital. Founded about 1545, the city was destroyed by Native Americans before 1600. Later rebuilt, Buenaventura thrived after the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. Today, the city is crucial for sending raw materials to nearby areas; this has brought prosperity and allowed recent new development to occur. Historical and geographic review Geographic location: Good luck is the most extensive Municipality of the Valley of the Cauca. With more than 6,000 kilometers square, it enjoys a privileged geostrategic position. In the more important marine Terminal of Colombia is lodged. Its location is to 3º. 50 `00 of North latitude and 77º. 00 `00 of west longitude with an extension of square 6.078kilómetros and to a height of 7 meters on the level of the sea. It has a population of 260,000 inhabitants according to census of the Dane in 1997 and it locates like the second municipality more populating with the Valley of the Cauca, but for its residents that population today fluctuates between the 350 and 400 thousand inhabitants. It has electrical energy, aqueduct, sewage system telecommunications, transport aerial, marine fluvial, terrestrial and iron. The foundation became in the Island of “Gravel pit” names with which they designated the natural ones to it of the tribe of the “Buscajaes” and the name of Good luck was given to him by to have founded the day of the Celebration of San Buenaventura and by the tranquillity of the Bay. It is a Port of open roadstead with natural protection within a sheltered inner bay. The Municipal territory is the one of greater extension in the Department of the Valley of the Cauca and is included/understood from the borders of the Pacific Ocean to summits of the Western Mountain range in the sector of farallones of Cali, that serves to him as limit with the Municipalities of Jamundí, Cali. It limits by the north with the Department of Hit, by the east with the municipalities of Jamundí, Cali, Dagua and Calima; by the south with the Department of the Cauca and by the West with the Pacific Ocean. Because of its topography the municipality enjoys all climates, varying the temperature from 28º. in low parts up to zero degrees in the tops of the mountain range, the precipitation is continuous all the year obtaining averages of 8,000 mm Annual. Their earth are distributed thus: Warm Thermal floor in 5.300 Km2., means in 640 Km2. ; cold in 58Km2 and Desert in 30 Km2. The coastal zone almost totally is covered with mangle and presents/displays two remarkable bays, the one of Malaga or Magdalena and the one of Good luck where is the city. Most of their earth are covered with rich virgin forests in wood, gold, platinum and coal, of extensive petroliferous reserves still without operating, broken and current minors who descend from the mountain range, as well as by numerous and mighty rivers, which they constitute important hydraulic reserve for the country, among them stand out the Anchicayá rivers whose it causes takes advantage of in a great hydroelectric plant; Canoe, Cajambre, Calima, Dagua, Guapi, Guapicito, the Sierpe, Mayorquín, Naya, Natita, Fox, San Agustín, San Cipriano, San Juan, Verde and Yurumanguí. Most of these you cause are navigable, being used by the lumber industrialists who transport their products from sections forests to Good luck, main center for its commercialization. The continental part is united by the refaccionado bridge “the Piñal”, road artery of the city that was added with double road in 1975 and now in 1997 increased with a new twin bridge, independent but alternating with four carreteables routes, their own railway line and its own one access road. For its communication with the rear area, Good luck counts on two highways: The Old one and neglected Simón Bolivar who unites with Cali in a route of 142 kilometers and the Buga- Madroñal - Good luck of excellent denominated conservation “Exact Alexander Pombo” in memory of their main impeller, that in the site of Guerrero Wolf to the right margin joins with the route to Cali and by the left margin with the route to Buga; the extension starting off of Good luck is from 124 kilometers to Cali and Buga 121 kilometers. The load transport is mobilized by the railroad from the Pacific, 174 kilometers to Cali, and mainly through heavy vehicles, tractomulas and double troques of numerous agencies of this service. Also, the marine route between Good luck and countries of America, Asia and Europe are taken care of by abundant and prestigious shipping agencies that have seat here. Historical review: 1540 According to some historians the Port of the called Pacific today Good luck, was discovered by Paschal of Andagoya in the middle of year 1540. In his second it travels by the Western coast saturated in the cove of Malaga and in one of the Islands of her, who since then received the name of “Island of the Death”, the life of Don Luis de Andagoya was extinguished brother of the discoverer. The pain the loss of its brother, made ingrate the permanence in the cove to Paschal gift and it left to look for it another near island of greater size, inhabited by a tribe of called Indians “Buscajaes.” After four days of laborious navigation by the bocanas of Solán and Santa Ana, it arrived the 14 of July from 1540 at the bay of the Island of Gravel pit that called of the Good luck, by calm of waters and the windbreak of the bend. The Island of Gravel pit, of three kilometers in length in center shows a surface irregular with depressions in the two extremities and crowned by a hill that today denominates “the hill”. Buscajaes received to the conquerors with manifestations of complacencia and hospitality and flattered them with fish, the Coco, honey of bees and bananas. There it had Andagoya notifies of which in the births of the rivers Anchicayá and Raposo very rich gold mines existed and flattered by fausta so new it decided to march to them. Before starting off it recommended to Don Juan de Ladrilleros who founded a population on the area of the Gravel pit. The population was set afire by the Indians towards aims of century XVI since then the secular city has run a life of difficulties and uncertainties that prevented their definitive affirmation by long time. Times it attacks the destructive fire, others the lack of understanding that finds arguments in its natural conditions, to retain it in the march. Its continuous fight, when not against the adverse action, against the forgetfulness, it has had to live to the defensive in all hour. And although it is truth that the progress overcame the greater obstacles already than they were crossed to him in the footpath, is not less certain that it has not left the accomplishments that corresponded to the antiquity of the city and to his you magnify geographic and harbor conditions. On the other hand, the remarkable Colombian historian, Don Rufino Gutiérrez bring the following information: The 15 of February of 1540 Paschal gift of Andagoya left Panama in three boats to make explorations in the sea Pacific and then the Bay entered the first a that later was called Good luck. Her lieutenant Juan de Ladrilleros who came in exploration outpost discovered a cove and founded on her a population that she baptized with the name of Port de la Cruz Oviedo, when speaking of this she says that she is “one of but the beautiful coves that men have seen and enter her many great and small rivers and adds that there principle to the foundation of a population with the name of Good luck occurred.” and lieutenant of the foundation named to Brickmakers. Don Juan Lopez de Velasco says that the captain Gutiérrez of the Rock, lieutenant of Andagoya, founded on this bay a population in 1540 and adds that in 1546 there were single three or four native neighbors of Cali, ordered to dispatch the merchandise and that was ill earth “, rough and very rainy”. Hieronymite Fray of Field of broom, solicitor and visitador of the diocese of Popayán, that crossed everything, says in the relation that wrote in 1582 the following thing: that it seems to indicate that the primitive Port was not in the Island of Gravel pit but in the Dagua river, a little arrives, but it must consider that this is not navigable by boats that obtain the passage to Panama but in the opening to the Bay. “this Port is a river at where the boats arrive from the city of Panama, which, these one hundred boats sail to fifty leguas by the sea, that is called of the south, until giving in this river, will run these these boats by this river, until giving in Port, eight leguas”. It adds that much treatment by the Port became. 1719: The Spanish crown chooses to Good luck like Port. 1816: In the first days of April of year 1816 “Hercules” occupied to Good luck English commodore Guillermo Brown with the Brig and a corvette with Republican flag of Buenos Aires. He was in this Port where General Antonio Jose de Sucre and the other expeditions embarked that commanded and took the Liberator to emancipate to Ecuador and Peru. 1827: In 1827 by decree 389 of the 26 of July, sanctioned by General Francisco de Paula Santander, Good luck was declared Frank Port for the Import and Export in the Pacific and was granted right of property of earth to the people whom they built in the island and in 1838 by means of other decrees the character of Port was left them solely. 1829: The Simón Liberator Bolivar by means of a decree dated in Cali the 24 of December of 1829, declared subsistente in all his parts the decree of the 26 of 1827 July, by means of which the right was recognized that on uncultivated lands of the Island of Gravel pit they had acquired the then settlers of Good luck, ratified the character of Frank Port, the title of Villa occurred him and east district in residence of the Corner was elevated. 1833: Don Federico D Cross corresponded to the colonel, to prócer of National independence, to place in Good luck, the 18 of Julio of 1833, the first rail for the construction of the railroad that would communicate to the Port with Cali and the 2 of fecbrero of 1878, 45 years later in the city of Cali, the President, General Julian Trujillo, company/signature with the Cuban engineer Francisco Javier Cisneros, who had arrived at the country in 1874, contracted by the government of the sovereign state of Antioch to construct the Railroad Medellín Puerto Berrio, the contract for the construction of the Railroad of the Pacific. The 20 of Julio of 1884 Cisneros did delivery of the first section of 22 kilometers in the site of Cordova and the day 1º. Of January of 1915 the first locomotive made its arrival to Cali. 1846: The Bay is visited by Henry Keller, Captain of the English admiralty, with permission of the National government, to study it and to carry out the corresponding drillings for the rise of the sea chart. 1906: The captain Rolls rectified the drillings conducted in 1846 by Henry Keller 1912: In the government of the Dr Carlos and Restrepo Pearson Ands Sons contracted itself with the house, of London, by the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, the planes of the modern city of Good luck that were the base for the development of first harbor works. In the Departmental Administration that presided over the Dr Ignacio Borrero (1918-22) was carried out the constitution of the first wharf, that occurred to the service in 1921. With this work Good luck like importance port began to be outlined. In that time the harbor services beside the point lent in form rudimentary then as much the loading as the unloading of the boats towards by means of barges and small boats and until in shoulders of the rowers. With the denominated work “Soft Rengifo” in tribute to their illustrious executor, the imports and operations were increased until the point, refers Don Rafael Isaac in chronicle published in the weekly magazine” the West " in 1940, that were insufficient the warehouses of the Customs and the railroad to store the load. There was then necessity to contract in 1926 with Raymond Makes specific Pounds Company, the construction of a levee and wharves of greater capacity. 1920: It arrives at the Port the first steam coming from San Francisco (Californian), the S.S. Derblay 1925: With law 52 of 1925 the administration from the wharf to the railroad of the Pacific got up itself. 1926: During the administration of the Dr Miguel Abbey Méndez (1926-30) the levee contracted with Raymond concluded, occurred to impulse to the construction of the Hotel Station and substantial improvements in the Port were introduced, such as the dowry of lights and buoys and the creation of the society for the construction of the highway “Simón Bolivar". Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1011x674, 400 KB) Summary en:: Park beside the main jetty. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1011x674, 400 KB) Summary en:: Park beside the main jetty. ... Valle del Cauca is a department of Colombia. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... 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1929: The 28 of February of 1929 enter the Bay the steam “Tritonia” of English flag, that lead 200 tons of dynamite for ports of the south. By an inexplicable negligence a fire took place on board that was not possible to choke, giving result to a terrible explosion that affected to the city and seeding the indescriptible panic but in its inhabitants. Human losses and damages in the constructions of the city. 1930: In period 1930 - 34 during the government of the Dr Enrique Olaya Herrera were finished several works of the previous administration, the Hotel was high and mighty Station, and it was constructed to the wall in front of the sea and the bridge of the “piñal” that unites the island of Gravel pit with the continent, via of vital importance for the traffic of the load. 1933: Raymond Concrect Pile assumes the administration of the Port of Good luck. 1934: In the government of the Dr Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo (1934-38) they were constructed the station of the railroad, the patios of the levee, the group of forty sanatorium, the hospital of the railroad and the highway “Simón advanced Bolivar”. From 1934 to 1953 it is left the marine terminal tie to the division of national railroads. 1939: With law 80 of that year, December 22, authorizes the government to come to extend and to prepare the Port so that it is in suitable conditions to take care of the movement properly harbor. 1952: The construction of the highway Buga- Madroñal begins - Good luck, better call Exact Alexander Pombo. 1953: From 1953 to 1961 the Terminal is incorporated to the section of navigation and ports of the Public Work Ministry 1955: The 18 of February of 1955 a fire destroys warehouses 3 and 4 of the Marine Terminal, inflicting considerable casualties 1958: Admitted the importance of Good luck like main Seaport, the creation of the Merchant Fleet is conceived Great Colombian in 1942, idea that gets to be crystallized during the Lleras administration Camargo, in 1958, with the spirit to give autonomy him to the country in the commercialization of its products. The Port holds fast in its connection with international marine lines. 1959: With law 154 of the 24 of December of 1959 the company Ports of Colombia is created. 1961: From first of 1961 July the Company Ports of Colombia enters use. 1975: With the decree law 561 of 1975 the Company Ports of Colombia like commercial company of the State is reconstructed. 1980: With the decree law 1174 of 1980 one takes responsibility to the Company Ports of Colombia of the totality of the national harbor system. 1991: The national government sustains his economic policy in the internationalization, modernization structural with base in reforms fiscal, exchange, financial modification, of foreign investment, foreign trade and sends law 01 of January of 1991 so that by means of the new statute of Seaports he authorizes to the organizations public and deprived to create Harbor Societies that were in charge of the handling of all the Ports. With this directive the Company Ports of Colombia disappeared. 1992: The General Supervision of Ports, sent resolution 113 of the 5 of November of 1992, that defined the terms to grant harbor concessions to the regional Harbor Societies and at the same time it was invited to participate in the constitution of these societies. 1993: The Regional Harbor society of good luck, constituted in this city the 21 of December of 1993. It is an organization of mixed character with 209 shareholders, of who 70% are private (conglomerated economic exporter and agro-industrial importers, producers, shipping harbor, extrabajadores operators of Ports of Colombia) and rest 30% are of the Nation, of the Department of the Valley of the Cauca and the Municipality of Good luck. 1994: The 21 of February of 1994 the State contract of Concession of the assets of the Company Ports of Colombia was signed, in liquidation with the General Supervision of Ports and the 17 of March of 1994 enter operations.

Coordinates: 3°53′N 77°02′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...