El Volador hill
| El Volador | |
|---|---|
-Medellin.JPG) Ecoparque Cerro El Volador. | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 82 m (269 ft)above mean city level. |
The El Volador Hill (Cerro El Volador, officially Ecoparque Cerro El Volador) is a colombian hill in Medellín, Antioquia, and the biggest protected area in the metropolitan area of the city. The park has 106 hectares and also is one of the seven tutelary hills in the city.
Many of the first settlements into the Aburrá Valley were established in the hill, in the center-western zone, the actual Robledo. This hill is surrounded by the Quebrada La Iguaná (La Iguaná stream), at south. At north by the streams Mononga and La Malpaso. At east is cut off by the 65 street.
The campus of the National University of Colombia and the University of Antioquia are near the hill too; as well, in some paths have been archaeological finds dating from the early centuries of the Christian era, as well as funerary complex from the 14th to 16th centuries caused by the Aburrá people.[1] For these reasons the hill was included as a natural colombian heritage site in 1992, and in 1998 due to the environmental and archaeological wealth it possesses, the hill was named of interest to the nation, by the Culture Ministry.
References
- ^ "El Volador". Cerros tutelares (in Spanish). Retrieved 2009-01-28.