Valle de Aburrá
Cities of Lights, Landscapes and Flowers
Located in the middle of Antioquia, surrounded by beautiful mountains around, wonderful landscapes and a huge variety of animals and flowers, the territorial view displays some beautiful green tonalities spectrum.
The valley has 3`316.358 inhabitants (DANE2005), we can find 10 municipalities named: Barbosa, Bello, Copacabana in the north, Medellín (Main central city), Envigado, Itagüí, Sabaneta, La Estrella and Caldas in the south.
This valley is considered as the highest economical and social progress development area in the whole department, due to the high industrial development through the years, superior education facilities and the widest public-services coverage.
Tourism strengthens up progressively, to make people know the natural resources of every single municipality in the valley, focusing in the appropriate seasons for vacations as well as spending some recreational spreading in recreational farms, similarly to access to natural creeks, practice extreme sports, or making ecological hiking.
These are some of those places: in the south we can visit the “The Maria Auxiliadora Sanctuary,” located in the Santa Ana Church in Sabaneta; there we can also find “La Romera Recreational Park” and other appropriate horse-riding spaces, culture houses with special programs, meet the museums, enjoy the great variety of food and music, with nice restaurants, bars, inns and discotheques.
Medellín is the center of the region and each municipality of the valley is located nearby Medellín, Barbosa is the most distant, it takes one hour from Medellín to get there. The capital of Antioquia and the surrounding municipalities have formed a great commercial passage, gathering a bit more of 25 shopping centers in its metropolitan area. They generally have a very good reputation, and the fashion market is the main highlight, achieving a very good level in the natural environment.
In health, the Valley of Aburra, has a huge public-private hospital network, providing very good qualified doctors on their own specializations for the users and patients, making the city as a very interesting health tourism destination for local and foreigners, looking for the best option of health and beauty.
For all what is mentioned in this article, we can say that this great Valley of Aburrá provide us a past, present and future for actual and forthcoming generations of the region.