1. a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla; [syn: Magdalena, Magdalena River]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Magdalena River
n 1: a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern
Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the
Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla [syn: Magdalena, Magdalena
River]