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Medellín to Santa Fe de Antioquia

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Recorded distance
57 km
Riding-time estimate
51 min
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 Western Cordillera and Cauca Valley.

Editorial context

Coordinates are curated start-via-end route seeds. They are not a surveyed centreline or navigation geometry. Run road snapping, topology checks, access checks and a live-status review before publication.

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

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Medellín sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Santa Fe de Antioquia.

  2. 2. Santa Fe de Antioquia

    Heat is the first thing you notice here. Santa Fe de Antioquia sits low, around 500 metres above the sea in the dry canyon of the Cauca river, and after riding up out of cool Medellín and through the long tunnel under the mountains, the air thickens and the temperature leaps by ten degrees or more. The town is a grid of whitewashed colonial houses with terracotta roofs and wooden doors, a handful of stone churches, and a plaza with cafés where people sit in the shade and do very little.

    Read the complete Santa Fe de Antioquia write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Santa Fe de Antioquia comes up 57 km in.

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