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Antioquia is one of the thirty-two departments that make up the Republic of Colombia. Its capital is Medellín, the second most populated city in the country. It is located in the northwest of the country, in the Andean and Caribbean regions, bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, Córdoba and Bolívar, on the east by Santander and Boyacá, on the south by Caldas and Risaralda, and on the west by Chocó. With about 6.5 million inhabitants. In 2015 it is the most populated department and with 63 600 km², the sixth largest, surpassed by Amazonas, Vichada, Caquetá, Meta and Guainía.

Its territorial organization comprises nine subregions in a total of 125 municipalities, more than half of the population lives in the metropolitan area of ​​the Aburrá Valley, and its economy generates 13.9% of the Colombian GDP, ranking second after Bogotá. Although before the Spanish conquest there were already indigenous settlements in the territory, and later with the arrival of those towns were founded, the history of the department as a territorial entity began in the year 1569 when it ordered its separation from the Governorate of Popayán. On October 30,1584, Santa Fe de Antioquia, which previously depended on said government, became the capital of the Province of Antioquia, and in 1830, with the disintegration of the republic of Gran Colombia, it re-emerged as a province until 1856, when it was formed in Sovereign State. In 1886 it became the current department with the disappearance of the United States from Colombia.