Medellín (col)

Medellín

Medellín ranks 262nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cape Town, Cambridge, and Montpellier. Memorable people born in Medellín include Fernando Botero, Andrés Escobar, and René Higuita. Memorable people who died in Medellín include Griselda Blanco, Andrés Escobar, and Francisco Zuluaga. Medellín has been the birth place of many soccer players, and singers and the death place of many politicians, and mafiosos. Medellín is located in Colombia.

Medellín, officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín, is the second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes Mountains, in northwestern South America. The city's population was 2,427,129 at the 2018 census. The metro area of Medellín is the second-largest urban agglomeration in Colombia in terms of population and economy, with more than 4 million people. Read more on Wikipedia