Medellín facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Medellín
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City
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Municipio de Medellín | |||
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Location of the city (in dark gray) and municipality (red) of Medellín in Antioquia Department
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Country | Colombia | ||
Department | Antioquia | ||
Founded | 1616 | ||
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• City | 380 km2 (150 sq mi) | ||
• Metro | 1,152 km2 (445 sq mi) | ||
Elevation | 1,495 m (4,905 ft) | ||
Population
(2005)
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• City | 2.343.101 hab (ranked 2nd) | ||
• Density | 6.925/km2 (17.94/sq mi) | ||
• Metro | 3.333.970 hab | ||
Time zone | UTC-5 | ||
HDI (2006) | 0.808 – high | ||
Website | Government of Medellín official website: http://www.medellin.gov.co/ |
Medellín (pronounced or Spanish: or) is the capital city in the Metropolitan Area of Medellín of the Antioquia Department, Colombia. It was founded in 1616 by Francisco Herrera y Campuzano. As of 2006, the municipality of Medellín had a population of 2.4 million inhabitants. This makes it the second most populated city in Colombia after Bogotá. Medellín also is the core of the Valle de Aburrá (Aburrá Valley) metropolitan area. This is the second largest metropolitan area in Colombia, with more than 3.8 million inhabitants, and a leading and productive industrial and urban center.
The city's major problem is unemployment. Many other Colombian cities also have this problem. People from Antioquia and especially from Medellín are called Paisas although the Paisas are people from the departments of Antioquia, Risaralda, Caldas and Quindío.
Images for kids
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Spanish conquistador Marshal Jorge Robledo
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Engineering School, National University of Colombia
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Medellín Metro is the only metro system in Colombia.
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Christmas Lighting on La Playa Avenue in 2011
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Bandeja paisa is the representative food of Medellín and Antioquia.
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Headquarters of Hewlett-Packard in Route N
See also
In Spanish: Medellín para niños