Medellín

Medellín
City
Municipio de Medellín
Medellin skyline
Flag Seal
Location of the city (dark red) in Antioquia (red) comparing with Colombia
Medellín
Coordinates: 6°14′9.33″N 75°34′30.49″W
Country	Colombia
Department	Antioquia
Founded	1616
Government
• Mayor	Federico Gutierrez, 2016-2019
Area
• City	380 km^2 (150 sq mi)
• Metro	1,152 km^2 (445 sq mi)
Elevation	1,495 m (4,905 ft)
Population  (2005)
• City	2.343.101 (ranked 2nd)
• Density	6.925/km^2 (17.94/sq mi)
• Metro	3.333.970
Time zone	UTC-5
HDI (2006)	0.808 – high[1]
Website	Government of Medellín official website

Medellín (pronounced IPA: [mɛdəˈjiːn] or [mɛdəˈliːn], Spanish: [með̞eˈʝin] or [með̞eˈʎin]) is the capital city in the Metropolitan Area of Medellín of the Antioquia Department, Colombia. It was founded in 1616 by Francisco Herrera Campuzano. As of 2014, the municipality of Medellín had a population of about 2.45 million inhabitants. This makes it the second most populated city in Colombia after Bogotá, which is the capital city of Colombia.^[2][3] 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.

References

1. Veeduría de Medellín. "Veeduría Ciudadana al Plan de Desarrollo de Medellín IDH 2004-2007" (xls) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2009-01-26. ^{[dead link]}
2. Helders, Stefan. "World Gazetteer: Colombia: largest cities: calc 2006". Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2006-06-15.
3. Butler, Rhett (2003). "Largest cities in Colombia (2002)". Archived from the original on 2006-06-23. Retrieved 2006-06-15.

Other websites

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