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Medellín to Jardin

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Recorded distance
125 km
Riding-time estimate
2 h 03
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

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Why this ride

A named mountain-road corridor with sustained elevation change and pass scenery. It links naturally to Coffee cultural landscape vicinity.

Editorial context

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Access context

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Seasonal context

Dec-Mar

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Medellín

    Medellín is a city in a bowl. It fills the Aburrá Valley in the Colombian Andes, with houses climbing the steep sides in tight brick and tin-roofed rows, and the mild climate at around 1,500 metres has earned it the nickname of the city of eternal spring. For decades the world knew it for the drug trade and its violence, but over the last twenty years it has changed itself with a good metro, cable cars that link the poorest hillside districts to the centre, library parks and outdoor escalators in the former no-go neighbourhood of Comuna 13. The sculptor and painter Fernando Botero, born here in 1932, gave the city a collection of his plump bronze figures in a plaza in the centre.

    Read the complete Medellin write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Medellín sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Jardin Colombia.

  2. 2. Jardin Colombia

    Jardín is what a coffee town looks like when nobody has bothered to ruin it. It lies in the south-west of Antioquia, on a green mountainside in the heart of the coffee region, and the plaza is the centre of everything: a square of tall trees, brightly painted chairs, and a neo-Gothic basilica of the Immaculate Conception with a pointed façade that looks rather too grand for the place. Early in the evening, farmers, schoolchildren and old men with hats gather there to drink tinto, the small black coffee Colombians drink all day.

    Read the complete Jardin Colombia write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Jardin Colombia comes up 125 km in.

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