is about the medellin river

1. By:
Johann López.
School Manuel Mejía Vallejo

2.  The Medellín River or river Aburrá
is a Colombian River that flows
through the city of Medellín and its
metropolitan area, is the only River
in this place. Born 3100 meters
above the sea level, at the top of
San Miguel, in the municipality of
Caldas, South of the Aburrá Valley,
descends the Valley of Aburrá, it
runs through ten municipalities, it
has a distance of 98 km and 2 km
after, already with the name of
Porce River, it flows into the river
Nechi.

3. Medellin River .

4.  Medellín populous and flowing along the history of the city, the River
fulfilled the role of landfill wastewater, which is still contaminated
today with tons of organic matter and toxic waste as cyanides, phenols,
sulfides , mercury and lead. The first manifestations of pollution Aburrá
Valley initially felt in the 60 streams that are located in the most
densamentean in the river without any treatment.
Medellin River
Problems

5. The
Medellin
river was
clean…
Before
Born of the river

6. The Medellin
river this
contaminated
Now

8. What
We
Want

9. How we can change the contamination?
 We can solve the problems of
pollution of the Medellín river mainly,
proposing new ideas for, and so that
in the future we have a river like the
earlier, clean, offering time and
working as a team.

10. In these project we want clean
the rivers, but the first thing is
Change the Word