Reserves and protected areas in Medellín
Explore the 17 Guardabosques project reserves and designated protected areas associated with Medellín. Inspect their published names, catchments, rural districts, categories and designation documents. Compare reserves by catchment and protected areas by category, or analyze their spatial relationship with other layers.
Explore these layers ↗Municipal reference: reserves updated December 10, 2025 and protected areas November 28, 2025, according to the service description. The publication retains ten protected areas; nine intersect the viewer extent and Alto de San Miguel lies to the south. Some areas span neighboring municipalities, so their full areas are not protected-area totals within Medellín. These boundaries do not establish public access, open trails or visitor conditions.
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One city. Many ways to read it.
Geovisor view · Municipal Disaster Risk Management Plan scenarios, City of Medellín. Reference mapping: not alerts or events.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Reserves and protected areas include in the Medellín geovisor?
In Medellín’s Reserves and protected areas you can explore 2 layers: Guardabosques reserves · water-supply catchments and Designated protected areas. Each layer states its source, date and use limits.
Can I reuse the Reserves and protected areas data?
According to each layer’s published license: Inventario público municipal · licencia específica no indicada and CC BY-SA 4.0. Check the exact license on the layer record before reuse.
How current are the Reserves and protected areas data?
Layers declare data dates from 2025-11-28 to 2025-12-10. Last GeoSAT verification: 2026-09-28.
How do I explore Reserves and protected areas in the viewer?
Click “Explore these layers” to open the prepared Reserves and protected areas query; review enabled layers under Layers. Filter by exact field and value, select features to read their records, and export received results with attribution and dates.
Who publishes the Reserves and protected areas data?
Layers come from Distrito Especial de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Secretaría de Medio Ambiente · Subsecretaría de Recursos Naturales Renovables · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección de atributos y coordenadas WGS84 redondeadas a siete decimales, sin simplificación, retrieved and adapted by GeoSAT with per-record attribution and provenance.
Which other themes can I explore?
Other themes in the Medellín geovisor: Metro, cableways and tram, Road infrastructure and taxi stands, and Walking and tactical urbanism.
Sources, dates and limits
Each source’s verification date appears in the table. Retrieval time is not the data update date. Small city-wide layers use the full extent; larger layers depend on the visible area. Reference publications retain their original retrieval date. Each page contains up to 500 features: up to 2 MiB for external services and 4 MiB for local publications. Reference publications load matching pages, up to 5,000 features and 8 MiB per query. External services may return partial samples, identified in the viewer.
| Layer and source | Data date | Reuse |
|---|---|---|
| Guardabosques reserves · water-supply catchmentsDistrito Especial de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Secretaría de Medio Ambiente · Subsecretaría de Recursos Naturales Renovables · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección de atributos y coordenadas WGS84 redondeadas a siete decimales, sin simplificación 17 reserves acquired to protect catchments supplying community and rural aqueducts. The service description declares a December 10, 2025 update; individual records have no dates. The five rural districts, catchments and subcatchments retain published wording, including “No aplica” and source spelling errors. Geometry retains every component and hole, rounded by less than one centimeter. These are not forest-cover, flow, trail or permitted-access data. The public service declares no specific reuse license. | 2025-12-10Source checked: | Inventario público municipal · licencia específica no indicada |
| Designated protected areasDistrito Especial de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín · GeoMedellín · Secretaría de Medio Ambiente · Subsecretaría de Recursos Naturales Renovables · Adaptación GeoSAT: selección de atributos y coordenadas WGS84 redondeadas a siete decimales, sin simplificación Ten areas associated with Medellín, not ten municipal parks: nine intersect the viewer extent and Alto de San Miguel lies outside it to the south. Polygons spanning neighboring municipalities remain complete. The service declares a November 28, 2025 update; attributes retain RUNAP reports from 2018–2020 and the 2014 land-use plan. Separate metadata retains 11 records and 2018 dates: this publication uses the ten queried records without replacing those dates. Five categories, documents and names remain as published. All components and the Río Nare polygon’s 111 holes are preserved; coordinate rounding is below one centimeter. Full areas are not Medellín totals or certification of legal boundaries or public access. | 2025-11-28Source checked: | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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