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The municipality is located in the central zone of the state, about 100 km from the state capital Xalapa.It has a surface of 398.2 km2. The municipality of Medellín is delimited to the north by Veracruz, to the north-east by Boca del Río, to the east by Alvarado, to the south by Tlalixcoyan and to the west by Jamapa.
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 ...
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In pre-Columbian America the place was called Tecamachales.After the battle of La Noche Triste in 1520, Hernán Cortés ordered Gonzalo de Sandoval to found Medellín. In the year 1529, Don Juan de Zumárraga, bishop of Mexico, arrived in the town for the inauguration of the local church, considered the second in New Spain, which received the name of San Miguel Arcángel.
[citation needed] Today, the Olaya Herrera Airport still has significant passenger movements, because it is a main hub for domestic flights within Colombia and the preferred option for domestic flights out of Medellin. In January 2006, an Airbus A380 landed at the airport to conduct technical tests of the engines. This was the first time a ...
Political division of the Aburrá Valley (in dark gray, the urban areas of The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley). Topographic map of the Aburrá Valley. Aburrá Valley (in Spanish Valle de Aburrá), is the natural river basin of the Medellín River and one of the most populous valleys of Colombia in its Andean Region with near 4 million inhabitants in its biggest urban agglomeration ...
The Mexico City Metro has the highest passenger ridership from a single operator in Latin America, and second in the Americas, after the New York City Subway. São Paulo is the city with the largest number of passengers carried by trains.