WHERE IS THE CITY OF ETERNAL SPRING LOCATED?

 


MEDELLIN.

Medellín is the capital of the mountainous province of Antioquia in Colombia. It is nicknamed the "City of Eternal Spring" for its temperate climate and hosts the famous annual Flower Fair. The modern Metrocable connects the city with the surrounding neighbourhoods and has views of the Aburrá Valley below. Fernando Botero’s sculptures decorate the Plaza Botero in the center of the city, while the Museum of Antioquia exhibits more works of the Colombian artist.



There are different forms of population mobility that occur for voluntary or involuntary causes, some of the reasons that generate these internal and external migrations, are the search for better economic opportunities and armed conflicts in the place that lives. With regard to the latter, the most common forms of mobility correspond to the case of refugees and persons in situations of displacement, situations that are addressed in this work in a particular way, since, as the personages say, of the city of Medellín (2006) "the magnitude of these dynamics of human mobility has moments of intense activity, being today one of the demographic phenomena of greater international tension in general, particularly in Latin America and specifically in Colombia".

In Medellin, 42% of the total population is migrant. More than a third of households are made up of migrant men and only 16 per cent are native-born.
Unlike the other cities, Medellin is, above all, an epicenter of departmental migration (77% of migrants come from the rest of the department of Antioquia), which gives a distinctive feature to its migratory patron. The annual gross migration rate occurred in September 1992 when more than 30,000 people arrived in the city, of whom more than 60 per cent were women.




Finally, most migratory movements take the form of refugees, displacement, internal migration and external migration. Refugees according to ACNUR.

Migrantes en Medellín tendrán oportunidad de contar sus historias - Papagayo News

Taken of: Personería de Medellín (2006). Presentación ppt “Población Desplazada”; Cristina Buitrago Bedoya - Medellín: Movimientos Migratorios Y Relaciones Espaciales to observatoriogeograficoamericalatina; Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los refugiados –ACNUR-, Tomado de: Villa, M. (2005)

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