By:Johann López.

School Manuel Mejía Vallejo

Rivers project .

The Medellín River or river Aburrá is a Colombian River that flows through the city of Medellín and its metropolitan area, is the only River in this place. Born 3100 meters above the sea level, at the top of San Miguel, in the municipality of Caldas, South of the Aburrá Valley, descends the Valley of Aburrá, it runs through ten municipalities, it has a distance of 98 km and 2 km after, already with the name of Porce River, it flows into the river Nechi.

Medellin River

Medellin River .

Medellín populous and flowing along the history of the city, the River fulfilled the role of landfill wastewater, which is still contaminated today with tons of organic matter and toxic waste as cyanides, phenols, sulfides , mercury and lead. The first manifestations of pollution Aburrá Valley initially felt in the 60 streams that are located in the most densamentean in the river without any treatment.

Medellin River Problems

The Medellin river was clean.

Before

Born of the river

The Medellin river this contaminated

Now

In the future…

WhatWeWant ?

How we can change the contamination?

We can solve the problems of pollution of the Medellín river mainly, proposing new ideas for, and so that in the future we have a river like the earlier, clean, offering time and working as a team.

In these project we want clean the rivers, but the first thing is Change the Word

But, for this project we need

your help…

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