By:

Johann López.

School Manuel Mejía Vallejo

The Medellín River or river Aburráis a Colombian River that flowsthrough the city of Medellín and itsmetropolitan area, is the only Riverin this place. Born 3100 metersabove the sea level, at the top ofSan Miguel, in the municipality ofCaldas, South of the Aburrá Valley,descends the Valley of Aburrá, itruns through ten municipalities, ithas a distance of 98 km and 2 kmafter, already with the name ofPorce River, it flows into the riverNechi.

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

What

We

Want

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

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