1. PROYECT OF THE
RIVERS

2. MEDELLIN RIVER
 The Medellín river or river is a river Aburrá
crossing the Colombian city of Medellin and
the metropolitan area. Born at 3100 m in the
Alto de San Miguel, in the municipality of
Caldas, south of the Aburrá Valley, and 100
miles later, with the name of Porce
River, flows into the River Nechí

3. MEDELLIN RIVER AFTER MEDELLIN RIVER NOW

4. CENTRAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SAN
FERNANDO
 Initially, the city of Medellín was developed on
the east side of the river, and it was not until the
construction of the Guayaquil Bridge, that the
two sides were. The Medellín River has become
a development hub of the city, its importance is
so notorious that the route of the underground
city is the silhouette of the river, and is
separated from it only when it enters the city
center. The river is mostly channeled its way
through the city from the town of Sabaneta until
about Caribe metro station, north of the city.

6. PLACES NEAR MEDELLIN RIVER
 Apart from some subway stations, on the right bank of the
river are landmarks in the city such as the Palace of
Exhibitions and Conventions, the International Convention
Centre, the Metropolitan Theater, the intelligent building
Medellín Public Enterprises (EEPPM), SENA and the
Public University of Antioquia. On the left side is the Cerro
Nutibara, the La Macarena bullring, Pilot Public
Library, National University of Colombia at
Medellin, subway stations, among other attractions. At the
height of Barranquilla Street Bridge is the Training and
Information Center Environmental Medellín, an entity that
is part of the Ministry of Environment of the Municipality of
Medellín, who in turn, through the Secretary of Metrorio
works remediation of the river basin.

8. PROBLEMS WITH THE COLOR OF THE RIVER
An intense blue color was seen on Saturday afternoon in the
Medellín River, south of the Aburrá Valley, which was
immediately reported by various people in social networks
and denounced by the readers of this newspaper.
 One of our photographers are moved in and captured the
photos we share with you. In his Twitter account, the
director of the Metropolitan Area, Carlos Mario Montoya, the
entity responsible for the river environment, announced that
the Emergency Unit is investigating the new coloring
Medellín River. "We can not continue happening," he said.
 The Department decided last year involving a standard
penalties for companies or individuals, with their discharges,
will change the color of the river Medellín.Near the subway
station Envigado the river had a dark blue.The coloring
could also be seen in the town of Sabaneta.

10. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN MEDELLIN
 In 1955, when Medellin Public Enterprises barely consolidated as an
institution, was born on Christmas lights. For the holiday season, part of the city
is adorned with lights timidly special materials thanks to the contributions of
private enterprise, the authorities and to the press. The people of the Bella Villa
"down" to look at the official power at six in the evening and go over and over the
beach has always constituted the backbone of the Christmas scene. By
1967, Medellin Public Enterprises assumed the realization of "the enlightened"
as they are popularly known, and thus, design, assembly and, of course, costs.
Over time, these lighting systems were improving, becoming one of the biggest
tourist attractions in Medellin year-end season. Additionally, the National
Geographic, on its website, presents the Christmas lights of the city as one of
the ten most beautiful in the world.2EPM had offered its flagship lighting year
after year, only modified at the time dicembrina 1992, when the emergence of
rationing forced to squander all the creativity of its officials to devise a
"decorated" different, and thus does not deprive the Christmas charm City. It was
a different proposal, where the decorations and fire magic, multicolored bulbs
replaced.Today, lighting is an institution for Medellin. Hundreds of people work
for months for thousands of visitors to enjoy at strategic points in the city.

12. MONOGRAPH MEDELLIN RIVER
 The city of Medellín is divided in two by the Medellín
River, this river has a length of 100 kilometers from its
source to its transformation in the Porce River. Since its
birth in the height of San Miguel to about 2,700
meters, until renamed, receives water from tributaries
nearly 200 direct and through them to more than 352
streams. This will set the Medellín River Basin.The Rio has
had great significance both in the economic and cultural
life in Medellín, in the planning of our city has been
influential. In the late nineteenth century, the old bridges
built on the Santa Elena and Rio kicked off the first
attempts to expand the roads in Medellín, with coverage of
the gorge, the channeling of the bed and the construction
of new bridges over the river there is a new structure in
modern architecture. Many early bridges built over the
river, still exist as the built in 1879 by the German officer
Henry Haeusler.

14.  Watershed also called, is a properly defined
physical area, where surface and ground waters
are discharged into a natural network using one or
more channels of continuous or intermittent
flow, which converge in a major river in a natural
reservoir of water , or directly into the sea, which
can be considered as a drainage system. The
watershed consists of the following parts: training
area or water producing zone formed by the upper
parts of the dump montañas .Area formed by the
middle parts of the mountains, hills or mountains.
In this area you can see the confluence of streams
and arroyos.Area or water receiving area formed
by the lower parts of the mountains. In this
sector, the creeks and streams unite around a
CHARACTERISTICS OF RIVER BASIN MEDELLÍN