10 Facts About El Poblado

El Poblado is the 14th commune in the metropolitan area of the city of Medellin, Colombia.

El Poblado is known as Las Manzanas de Oro because it is the main center of the industrial and commercial life of the second largest economy of Colombia.

Name El Poblado derives from the first Spanish settlement of the Aburra Valley in 1616 that was built in what is today its main square.

In 1675, the Spanish administration founded another village in El Sitio de Ana, today's Berrio Square, designed to become the center of the future Medellin; instead, El Poblado itself became the main economic center during the 20th century.

El Poblado became a marginalized township until the 20th century.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, El Poblado was the preferred area for wealthy families of the city to buy rural villas.

El Poblado follows the Medellin tradition of using names for the streets, rather than numbers, though it has its own kind of numbering for its streets, different from the rest of the Medellin municipality.

In El Poblado it starts at an intersection with the 30th Street at its north and connects El Poblado to Envigado at its southern terminus.

El Poblado contains some of the more well known squares and malls of Medellin.

El Poblado lived there until 1943 when business man Diego Echavarria Misas purchased the property as a family residence.