The Medellin river flows through Colombia's city of Medellin and its metropolitan area. It was once heavily polluted due to sand mining and sewage dumping, but conditions have improved with water treatment facilities. The river is now a focus of development and features natural parks along its path. At its source, the river is called the Porce River and later joins the Nechi River and Cauca River before flowing into the Magdalena River.

1. MEDELLIN RIVER PROYECT

2. THE RIVER
• The Medellin river or river is a river Bore 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 nechi.

3. • Medellin was developed on the east side of the river, and it was
not until the construction of the Guayaquil Bridge, which the two
sides were. The Medellin River has become a development hub
of the city local municipalities because of the hundred miles
along the river, only three since 1996 the river is being one of
the major concerns of the kilometers are free from
contamination
• From the third kilometer, sand mining and dumping of sewage
from the city made it to be a very polluted river in summertime
produce strong odors situation was improving with the opening
of the water treatment center residual south valley bored.

4. • The Medellín river loses its name to the municipality of Barbosa
height, where it begins to be called Porce River, which flows a
few miles later at Nechí River, which in turn flows into the Cauca
river, whose waters flow into the Magdalena river in Bolivar

6. FEATURES RIVER
• Training Area: water or producing area formed by the upper
• Dumping Area: consisting of the middle parts of the
mountains, hills or mountains. In this area you can see the
creeks and streams
• Confluence area: water or receiving area formed by the
lower parts of the mountains. In this sector, the creeks and
streams unite around a main river.

8. SANFERNANDO PLANT
• Itagui, Envigado, Sabaneta, La Estrella, of the village of San
Antonio de receives wastewater from homes, industry and trade
Prado, then also receive Caldas Township.
• Sewage Plant reach through the sewer routes located in
neighborhoods, which discharge to the collectors parallel to the
streams, which in turn are connected to interceptors located on
each side of the river and finally go to the site of the plant San
Fernando

9. • Plant San Fernando is located in a natural park with 40,000
species of ornamental plants, 2,000 trees and large number and
variety of birds
• An estimated 20% of wastewater is difficult to control because
the streams reach the river and the problems of invasion of
mandatory retirement and the large amount of sediment coming
down from the slopes where construction materials are exploited
.

13. PAST
PRESENT

14. Medellín river
uncontaminated
River polluted

15. ARRIVAL OF CHRISTMAS
• the end of the year we celebrate Christmas with a tour of the
river full of many Christmas lights and figures is a tradition we
have for many years as a family and celebrate the start of
Christmas
• arranged round the river with different Christmas themes for
year end after the lights and dazzle people with its play of light

19. • MEDELLIN RIVER
• PROJECT
• FOR:
• NICOLAS CASTAÑO
• JUAN JOSE YEPES
• GRADE: 7
• Medellín
• 2013