Barranquilla Zoo

Zoo of Barranquilla is a recreation center that keeps up differing creature species for the consideration of the general population in Barranquilla, Colombia . Worked by the Botanical and Zoological Foundation of Barranquilla, it has a territory of 10,000 m² and somewhere in the range of 109 local and remote species. It has the white tiger, jeopardized species and leader of the zoo picked by youngsters. The possibility of Barranquilla Zoo goes back to the 1930s, with the part granted by Tomas Suri Salcedo to the Society of Public Improvements, contiguous the El Prado neighborhood, corner to corner to the Municipal Stadium, in which a recreation center nursery was introduced whose first examples were household pigeons claimed by Roberto Puyana, leader of the Society of Public Improvements.

In 1952, the recreation center nursery was moved to a considerable measure of a few hectares for urban development issues to its present area in the area of La Concepcion, and was formally opened in February 1953 with the name of "Roberto Puyana." Between 1968 and 1975, the biggest number of fascinating creatures was recorded in the zoo's accumulation, which were traded by local species with zoos in Zurich, Lisbon, Barcelona and Miami, among others. The movement of the zoo behind the Muvdi stop or on the Isla de la Loma was considered.