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:

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Capital

Medellín

Governor

Anibal Gaviria

Area

63,612 km²

Population
- Total (2003)
- Density

6,990,478
90 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 almost 7,000,000 (2006). It borders on the Caribbean Sea at the Gulf of Uraba, but is mostly mountainous, with two ranges of the Western Cordillera, and is bordered on the east by the Magdalena River. The greater part of its territory lies between the Magdalena and Cauca rivers and includes the northern end of the Central Cordillera. The country is covered with valuable forests, and its mineral wealth renders it one of the most important mining regions of the republic.

Medellín is the chief city. 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 Postage stamps
2 Municipalities
3 References
4 External links

[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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