This small mountainous formation that barely has 33 hectares, located in the center of the Aburrá Valley and surrounded by buildings is one of the few ecosystems that are conserved in Medellín.
Since 1929 it has been called Cerro Nutibara, because at the time of the conquest it was known as Morro de Marcela de la Parra and later Morro de los Cadavides, as it was owned by a family from whom the Municipality bought it for the sum of Fifty Thousand Pesos Colombians, which by 1927 was a lot of money.
The name of Nutibara is a tribute that the city pays to the brave cacique who owned the lands of western Antioquia, he had so much wealth that he attracted the greed of the Spanish, who ended up keeping all the gold. In his honor is a patinated concrete sculpture made in 1955 by the artist José Horacio Betancur.
The wealth of flora and fauna of the hill is represented in more than 4,500 trees of some 101 species in 71 types of birds, some of them migratory, a number of families of insects and also small mammals such as squirrels, foxes and opossums, all of them They are protected and actions are permanently developed for their conservation and recovery of the ecosystem.
As the hill is a tourist destination in the city, it was endowed with a sculpture park with ten works by national and foreign artists in a modern abstract style, which are as if they were camouflaged in the vegetation, it is very comfortable to walk through the platforms that the municipality recently built in a remodeling plan for the Nutibara that is expected to be completed in the coming months.
El Pueblito Paisa, designed by the architect Julián Cierra Mejía and representing a colonial town in Antioquia, will not have major modifications within the current remodeling plan.
The top of the hill is a great viewpoint of the city, from here you can see how the city has grown, how the buildings in Medellin are getting taller and higher and also that in the Valley there are not many spaces for new constructions.