Pioneer city

1. Beginning of steam navigation on the Magdalena River. (1823)
2. First port of modern Colombia, Sabanilla. (1849)
3. First railway line is now Colombia, after the Panama: Barranquilla - Sabanilla. (1871)
4. First telephone service. (1882)
5. First private telephone service in Colombia, the Colombian-West Indian Company Telephone, founded by William Ladd. (1885)
6. First city in Colombia with the first film, July 1897. It was brought by Ernesto Vieco Morote.
7. First flight of aircraft in Colombia, with the Canadian pilot George Schmitt (1912)
8. Beginning of commercial aviation in Colombia with flights on Sundays and holidays, used by industry and trade to drop product samples, fact sheets and marketing material. (1918)
9. First air mail in the country, including Barranquilla and Puerto Colombia. The pilot William Knox Martin, along with Mario Santo Domingo, in a single engine aircraft (1919)
10. First commercial airline in the Americas and second in the world, SCADTA (Sociedad Colombo-German Air Transport), known as Avianca (1919)
11. First international flights: from Barranquilla to Key West, Florida, with stops in Central America, Mexico and Cuba. (1925)
12. First Municipal Public Enterprises Colombia. (1925)
13. First private commercial radio station in Colombia with Elias Pellet Buitrago, La Voz de Barranquilla (1929). 
14. First Olympic stadium, known as Romelio Martinez stadium (1935)
15. First seaport and river in the country with Bocas de Ceniza (1936)
16. First Zone of Colombia. (1964)
17. First City in Colombia in establishing an investment promotion Agency Probarranquilla, in order to promote sustainable economic development in the region.