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Post by livinginmedellin on May 14, 2016 7:20:03 GMT -5
El Colombiano newspaper has an interesting article that demonstrates the growth of the metropolitan Medellín area over the past 15 years with photos. Here’s a link to the story with photos: www.elcolombiano.com/antioquia/asi-se-ha-transformado-el-area-metropolitana-en-15-anos-JD4140478. Growth in some parts of the metropolitan area has been tremendous. Bello in the north grew from 282,198 inhabitants in 1993 to 455,865 today. In 1995, in Loma de los Bernal (in west Belén) there were 12 fincas and two apartment buildings where about 1,200 lived. Twenty years later only two fincas remain. The other ten were transformed into 65 developments with 21,610 people and 10,000 cars that have only two access roads: Avenida 80 or Guayabal. In the 22 barrios in comuna 14 (El Poblado) 126,000 people now live and 65,000 vehicles pass daily. The richest area of Medellin has tripled its population in just 20 years. In just three more years in the south in Sabaneta, the smallest municipality in Colombia is expected to double in population when it will have about 100,000 inhabitants. Although Sabaneta is only 15 square kilometers, many new buildings under construction of up to 40 floors will be home to 50,000 more people.
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Post by colombiana on May 14, 2016 10:47:07 GMT -5
Interesting photos. So the Medellín metro area is growing to the north, south, east and west - but the most growth is north, south and east. If doubling the population in Sabaneta in 3 years Sabaneta will become a parking lot during rush hour like El Poblado now.
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Post by mudd on May 14, 2016 14:54:15 GMT -5
and very little infrastructure added, no wonder traffic and smog here is so bad now. you can only shove some many buildings and cars into a small valley
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