Antioquia Department

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This article refers to Antioquia Department of Colombia. For the Colombian city of the same name, see Antioquia, Antioquia.

Antioquia
Department of Colombia


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Motto: Antioquia nueva, un lugar para la vida (New Antioch, a place for the life)

Capital

Medellín

Governor

Anibal Gaviria

Area

63,612 km²

Population
- Total (2003)
- Density

5,531,893
91.5 people/km²

Adjective

antioqueño

Antioquia was one of the states in the original "United States of Colombia", and is now a department in the northwest of the Republic of Colombia.

The department has an area of 63,612 km² (24,427 sq mi), and an estimated population of 5,819,358 (2006 estimate). It borders Cordoba Department and the Caribbean Sea to the north, Chocó Department to the west, to the east it borders the departments of Bolivar, Santander and Boyaca, and to the south the departments of Caldas and Risaralda.

Medellín is the chief city, and the second largest in the country. Other important towns are Santa Fe de Antioquia, the old capital located on the Cauca, and Puerto Berrío on the Magdalena.

Prior to the constitution of 1886, Antioquia and the other states were sovereign governments in their own right.

1 People
2 Postage stamps
3 Municipalities
4 References
5 External links

[edit] People

The local inhabitants of Antioquia are known as antioqueños. Of the five main regional groups in Colombia, the predominant group in Antioquia are known as paisa, referring to those living in the Paisa region, which covers most of Antioquia, as well as the departments of Caldas, Risaralda and Quindío.

[edit] Postage stamps

See : Postage stamps of Antioquia

[edit] Municipalities

Abejorral, Abriaquí, Alejandría, Amagá, Amalfi, Andes, Angelópolis, Angostura, Anorí, Antioquia, Anza, Apartadó, Arboletes, Argelia, Armenia, Barbosa, Bello, Belmira, Betania, Betulia, Bolívar, Briceño, Buritica, Cáceres, Caicedo, Caldas, Campamento, Cañasgordas, Caracolí, Caramanta, Carepa, Carmen de Viboral, Carolina del Príncipe, Caucasia, Chigorodó, Cisneros, Cocorná, Concepción, Concordia, Copacabana, Dabeiba, Don Matías, Ebejico, El Bagre, Entrerríos, Envigado, Fredonia, Frontino (Colombia), Giraldo, Girardota, Gómez Plata, Granada, Guadalupe, Guarne, Guatape, Heliconia, Hispania, Itagüí, Ituango, Jardín, Jericó, La Ceja, La Estrella, La Pintada, La Unión, Liborina, Maceo, Marinilla, Medellín, Montebello, Murindó, Mutatá, Nari, Nechi, Necoclí, Olaya, Peñol, Peque, Pueblorrico, Puerto Berrío, Puerto Nare, Puerto Triunfo, Remedios, Retiro, Rionegro, Sabanalarga, Sabaneta, Salgar, San Andrés, San Carlos, San Francisco, San Jerónimo, San José de la Montaña, San Juan de Urabá, San Luis, San Pedro, San Pedro de Urabá, San Rafael, San Roque, Santa Bárbara, Santa Rosa de Osos, Santo Domingo, Santuario, San Vicente, Segovia, Sonsón, Sopetrán, Támesis, Tarazá, Tarso, Titiribí, Toledo, Turbo, Uramita, Urrao, Valdivia, Valparaíso, Vegachi, Venecia, Vigía del Fuerte, Yali, Yarumal, Yolombo, Yondó, Zaragoza

[edit] References

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