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Andrés Orozco

Andrés Felipe Orozco Vásquez (born March 18, 1979 in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia) is a Colombian football defender.

Antioquia Department

Antioquia was primarily populated by Caribs, although some scattered groups of Muiscas were present in the Darién region (in modern day Panama), a coastal region in the far north of Antioquia.

Beibis Mendoza

Beibis Antonio Mendoza (born 1974-06-20 in Arboletes, Antioquia) is a professional boxer from Colombia.

Belén de Bajirá

In 2000 the authorities of the Chocó State founded and approved the municipality in the limits with the Antioquia State, north-east of Chocó and south of the Antioquean Urabá.

Bello, Antioquia

In Bello and the rest of Antioquia there are two major newspapers in circulation: El Colombiano and El Mundo, both with a long history at the regional level.

Carlos Gaviria Díaz

Gaviria began his judicial career the same year he graduated from university in 1961 when he was appointed Municipal Promiscuous Judge of Rionegro, but he returned to Medellín when he was named Professor at the University of Antioquia.

Charles Córdoba

Charles Córdoba Sánchez (born 15 September 1982 in Carepa, Antioquia, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who plays as forward for Atlético Choloma in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Colombian Conservative Party

In 1863 the Liberal party created a new constitution in the city of Rionegro which was opposed by the Conservative Party.

Colombian Tinamou

The Colombian Tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus columbianus, is a tinamou found in Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, and Antioquia in north-central Colombia.

Darío Gómez

Darío de Jesús Gómez Zapata, also known as El Rey del Despecho, (born February 6, 1951 in San Jerónimo, Antioquia) is a Colombian singer and composer of vals, corridos and boleros.

David Ospina

David Ospina Ramírez (born 31 August 1988 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Nice as a goalkeeper.

Diego Toro

Born in Medellín, Antioquia, Toro began playing professionally as a defensive midfielder with Atlético Nacional in 2000.

Eliecith Palacios

Eliecith Palacios (born 15 September 1987 in Carepa, Antioquia) is a Colombian sprinter.

Gerardo Bedoya

Gerardo Alberto Bedoya Múnera (born 26 November 1975 in Ebejico, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Harold Bedoya Pizarro

Three years later he will be given the position of Commander of the Fourth Brigade in Medellín, Antioquia where he participated in anti-narcotic operations against drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

Iglesia Ortodoxa de Antioquía San Juan Bautista

Iglesia Ortodoxa de Antioquía San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church of Antioch) is a Greek Orthodox cathedral in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Irene Pacheco

Irene Pacheco also known as Mambaco (born on March 26, 1971 in San Juan de Urabá, Antioquia) is a Colombian boxer former world champion in the IBF Flyweight category.

Joaquín Acosta

Seven years later he explored western Colombia from Antioquia to Anserma studying its topography, its natural history and the traces of its aboriginal inhabitants.

John Mosquera

John Jairo Mosquera (born 15 January 1988 in Apartadó, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Energie Cottbus in 2. Bundesliga as a forward.

Jonathan Estrada

Jonathan Estrada Campillo (born 27 January 1983 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Patriotas as a midfielder.

Josimar Mosquera

Josimar Mosquera Angulo (born 12 October 1982 in Caucasia, Antioquia) is an Colombian football defender who currently plays for Chilean club Cobresal in the Chilean Primera División.

Juan Camilo Zúñiga

Born in Chigorodó, Antioquia, Zúñiga made his for professional debut with Colombian giant Atlético Nacional.

Juan Carlos Mosquera

Juan Carlos Mosquera Gómez (born 10 December 1982 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Deportivo Pasto in the Torneo Postobón.

Juan Fernando Caicedo

Juan Fernando Caicedo Benítez (born July 13, 1989 in Carepa (Antioquia), Colombia) is a Colombian footballer currently playing for Independiente of the Nacional B in Argentina.

Juan Sebastián Villate

Juan Sebastián Villate born on February 14, 1991 in Medellín, Antioquia, is a Colombian football goalkeeper.

Maria Morales

Maria Carmenza Morales Rendón (born July 21, 1966 in Itagüí, Antioquia) is an athlete from Colombia, who competes in triathlon.

Mariano Ospina Pérez

Ospina studied in the Colegio San Ignacio in Medellín, Antioquia the city where he grew up and also studied engineering in the Escuela de Minas de Antioquia (Mining School of Antioquia) where he graduated as mining engineer.

Medellín Metro

The city's speedy urban growth, especially since the 1960s, has filled the entire Aburrá Valley and made towns touch its borders: Bello, Copacabana, Girardota, Barbosa, Envigado, Itagüí, San Antonio de Prado, La Estrella, Sabaneta and Caldas, among others.

The Antioquia Department and the Paisa Region in general, owe their progress to the construction of railways that had put them in direct contact with the rest of the country (especially with the Capital, Cali and the Colombian Caribbean Littoral).

Piedad Bonnett

Amalfi (Antioquia), 1951) is a Colombian poet, playwright and novelist.

Popular Liberation Army

Most of the demobilized guerrillas formed Esperanza, Paz y Libertad (Hope, Peace and Liberty), a political party, which claimed to defend the interests of workers and labor unions, especially around the Urabá area in the departments of Antioquia and Córdoba.

Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, to parents Antonio María Osorio and Pastora Benítez, he was raised by his grandparents in Angostura.

Risaralda Department

Risaralda department with an area of 365,300 ha, is located in the central sector of the central Andean region west of the country between two major poles of economic development (department of Antioquia in northern and southern Cauca Valley, extending between the central and western Cordillera), which slopes down toward the Río Cauca, also borders the departments of Caldas in the north-east, east Tolima, Quindio Chocó south and west.

Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt

Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt (October 23, 1919- May 14, 1995) was a Colombian sculptor, born on October 23, 1919 in Fredonia, Antioquia.

Sabaneta, Antioquia

It is boarded on the North by the municipalities of La Estrella, Itagüí and Envigado, on the East by the municipality of Envigado, on the South by the municipality of Caldas, and on the West by the municiality of La Estrella.

Sabina Moya

Sabina Moya Rivas (born January 27, 1977 in Turbo, Antioquia) is a retired female javelin thrower from Colombia.

Santa Fe de Antioquia

Founded in 1541 by Jorge Robledo as Villa de Santafé on the western bank of the Cauca River, in 1545 it received the coat of arms and the title of City of Antioquia from King Philip II of Spain.

Taraza

Tarazá - a municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia.

Universidad Católica de Oriente

Universidad Católica de Oriente (UCO) is a Catholic university in Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia.

Urabá

Urabá Antioquia, a subregion of the Antioquia department, Colombia

Víctor Aristizábal

Víctor Hugo Aristizábal Posada (born December 9, 1971 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian retired football striker who scored 15 goals in 66 games for the Colombia national team between 1993 and 2003.

Wilmar Roldán

Wilmar Alexander Roldán Pérez (born 24 January 1980 in Amalfi, Antioquia) is a Colombian football referee.


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