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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 ...
The department was hard hit by the Colombian conflict, with 30,000 people missing between 1997 and 2005. [ 8 ] The Wall Street Journal and Citi announced in the year 2013 that Medellín , the capital of the Department of Antioquia, is the winner of the City of the Year competition, a global program developed in partnership with the Urban Land ...
Departments are country subdivisions and are granted a certain degree of autonomy. Each department has a governor (gobernador) and an Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods. Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities (municipios, sing.
Colombia is divided into 32 departments. These in turn are divided into municipalities, though some receive the special category of district. However, there are also provinces, a generic name applied to provinces, districts, regions and subregions. These are generally internal administrative authorities of the departments, more historical than ...
The first group of Spanish to discover what is now Antioquia Department was headed by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas who entered through the Darién region in 1500. . Ten years later the Spanish conqueror Alonso de Ojeda entered with another group of Spanish conquerors and founded the village of San Sebastián de Urabá which function as a "business center" for the Spanish, this village ...
Within Colombia, 66% of export-quality flowers are grown in the department of Cundinamarca, where the capital of Bogotá is situated. Thirty-three percent are grown in the northwestern state of ...
Departments of Antioquia State, 1859. Through the law of June 11, 1856, the State was composed of the same provinces that constituted: [ 4 ] Antioquia Province (capital Santa Fe de Antioquia )
Most of the 2023 violent death victims in Medellin were U.S. citizens, according to the Tourism Observatory of the District Personnel of Medellin. The U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 3 ...