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Its recent history is closely associated with Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel. [3] Despite its connection with Escobar, the Aburrá Valley now has one of the lowest homicide rates in Colombia: 6 for every 100,000 people, [4] Envigado is the hometown of the Colombian writer and philosopher Fernando González.
The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley was the first metropolitan area created in Colombia, in 1980. The metropolitan area was created in order to produce economic integration, projection, and planning for urban development in the cities over the Aburra Valley. Municipalities in The Metropolitan Area of Medellín (in dark gray, the city ...
Succeeding Tom as head of the Oficina de Envigado, Clemente was also described as "Medellin's top mafia boss." [ 16 ] His arrest was the latest of more than 135 Oficina bosses and gang leaders arrested over the past three years who made it to the top of the crime organization in little more than 10 years. [ 16 ]
Español: Mapa del Municipio de Envigado, Antioquia (Colombia) Date: 24 December 2010: Source: Own work: ... [Category:SVG maps of municipalities of Antioquia ...
Envigado is the 18th station on line A of the Medellín Metro going south. [1] It is named after the city where it is located, Envigado . The station was opened on 30 September 1996 as part of the extension of the line from Poblado to Itagüí .
El Poblado is the 14th commune in the metropolitan area of the city of Medellín, Colombia.According to a 2005 census the population was 94,704, distributed among its land area of 23 km 2, and by the year 2015, it had a population of 128,839.
Medellín (/ ˌ m ɛ d ə ˈ l iː n / MED-ə-LEEN / ˌ m ɛ d eɪ ˈ (j) iː n / MED-ay-(Y)EEN; Spanish: [meðeˈʝin] or [meðeˈʎin]), officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín (Spanish: Distrito Especial de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of ...
Antioquia is the sixth-largest Department of Colombia.It is predominantly mountainous, crossed by the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes.The Cordillera Central divides to form the Aburrá valley, in which the capital, Medellín, is located.