Barrancabermeja (English spelling)

Japanese: バランカベルメハ（英語表記）Barrancabermeja

A city in the western part of Santander State, in north-central Colombia. It is a river port city located on the right bank of the middle Magdalena River, about 270 km north of the capital Bogotá. When the Spaniards arrived in 1536, there was an Indian settlement called La Tora surrounded by a wooden fence here, but the Spaniards renamed it La Tora, which means "vermilion cliff", after the steep cliffs on the nearby riverbank. It later became the center of a cattle ranching area, distributing beef and other products. Since the 1920s, it has rapidly developed as the center of the large-scale oil fields along the Magdalena River. In addition to roads and railways, an oil pipeline was laid to the port of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast, and large refineries and petrochemical plants were built in the city. Population: 136,012 (1985).

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Japanese:

コロンビア中北部，サンタンデル州西部の都市。首都ボゴタの北約 270km，マグダレナ川中流部右岸に位置する河港都市。 1536年スペイン人がやってきたときには，この地に木製の柵をめぐらしたインディオの集落ラトラ La Toraがあったが，スペイン人は近くの川岸の急崖にちなんで「朱色の崖」を意味する現市名に改称。のち牧牛地帯の中心地となり，牛肉などを集散。 1920年代以降，マグダレナ川沿岸の大規模な油田地帯の開発に伴い，その中心地として急速に発展。道路，鉄道が通じたほか，カリブ海沿岸の港カルタヘナまで石油パイプラインが敷設され，市内には大製油所や石油化学工場が建設された。人口 13万 6012 (1985) 。

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