MEDELLÍN
City of the eternal spring
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Medellín is the capital of the Antioquia Department, located in the Northwest of Colombia and which accounts 12% of the Colombian population and contributes 15% of gross domestic product. Geographic area of high and steep mountain ranges. The city is the geographical center of the Valley of Aburrá, which is formed by two branches of the Cordillera Central, being born in the Alto de San Miguel. The Valley is a slope that descends from 1800 to 1400 meters above the sea level crossed by the Medellín River that stretches South – North and has an approximate length of 70 kilometers. To the interior of the Valley are Cerro El Volador and Nutibara. In those branches of the cordillera there are Pan de Azúcar, the Picacho and elevations until of 3,000 meters of height on the sea level as the Hill of the Father Amaya. Medellin has a humidity relative average annual: 87% day and 54% night, pressure atmospheric 1012 millibars and precipitation average annual 200 cm.
The municipality of Medellin occupies an area of 376.22 square kilometers and is formed by his headboard with 271 neighborhoods and the districts of Santa Elena and San Antonio de Prado, San Cristóbal, Altavista and bordered by the municipalities of San Jerónimo, Copacabana, Bello, Guarne, Rionegro, El Retiro, Envigado, Itagüí, La Estrella, Heliconia, Angelopolis and Ebéjico. The Metropolitan Area brings together 9 municipalities and has 3.204.471 inhabitants, of which 2.230.000 live in the city of Medellin. The temperature average of the city is of 24 degrees centigrade providing a pleasant and invariably weather during all the year.
Medellin has received different names through history: San Lorenzo de Aburrá, Aburrá the Yamesies, Valle de San Bartolomé, Ana, Villa de la Candelaria of Medellín and Medellín, whose original name is derived from the word “Metelo”, which corresponds to the founder of Medellín in Extremadura in Spain. The capital Antioquia has received also different appellations as Capital of the Mountain, City of the eternal spring, City of the flowers, Capital of Orchids, the Bella Villa, Cup of Silver, and City of Congresses and Conventions.
History
In August 1541 during an expedition under the command of Jeronimo Luis Tejelo, who obeyed orders from Marshal Jorge Robledo, in search of land and riches of gold
Inhabited by indigenous of different character (Yamesies, Niquias, Nutabes and Aburraes, according to the chronics), the Valley is propitious to the settlers Iberian, in head of Francisco Herrera and Campuzano, for found the 2 of March of 1616, the population of San Lorenzo of Aburra in the place that today occupies the Poblado Park. A Cédula Real from the Queen Mariana of Austria, in 1674, granted the title of Villa and the 2 November 1675 is established the Villa of our Lady of the Candelaria of Medellín.
In 1813 the dictator don Juan de el Corral conferred the title of city to Medellin and in 1826 general Santander, President of New Granada, elevated the town to the status of Capital of the Antioquia Department.
How to get where
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You can arrive to Medellin by air and by land; the city has two airports and two terrestrial terminals.
Airport international Jose Maria Cordova:
The Jose Maria Cordova international airport is the main airport that serves to the city of Medellín and its area Metropolitan. The airport is located 45 minutes from the urban area in the municipality of Rionegro and is the second largest airport in terms of infrastructure and service of passengers in Colombia.
Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport:
Enrique Olaya Herrera airport is located in the Centre of the city of Medellin and attends regional and domestic flights in the country. In addition the airport is used by a large part of general aviation, featuring several hangars for Charter flights and is next to the South transport terminal.
Intermunicipal Transport Terminals
North intermunicipal terminal transport:
located in the North-West of the city. Provides bus services to areas located to the East and to the North of Antioquia: Bogotá, Tunja, Santander, and the main cities of the North coast of Colombia: Cartagena de Indias, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Sincelejo, Montería, Magangué, and others.
South intermunicipal terminal transport:
Located in the area southwest of the city next to the airport Enrique Olaya Herrera. Provides bus service to the South of Antioquia, also to Eastern Antioquia, the main cities of the coffee region like Manizales, Pereira and Armenia, the Department of Tolima and major cities in the South of Colombia as Cali, Ibague, Neiva, Popayán and Pasto.