Concepción, Antioquia

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Concepción
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Location of the municipality and town of Concepción in the Antioquia Department of Colombia
Concepción Location in Colombia
Coordinates: 6°23′42″N 75°15′30″W / 6.39500°N 75.25833°W / 6.39500; -75.25833
Country	Colombia
Department	Antioquia Department
Time zone	UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)

Concepción is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. It is part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia and located 75km from Medellin.

The village was declared "Site of Cultural and National Interest" in 1999, for its stone streets and its exceptional state of conservation.

This small town preserves very beautiful colonial sites such as the main Church, the "Casa de la Cultura", where the independency's leader Jose Maria Cordova was born, and several colonial streets, among them Tulio Ospina, Eloy Alfaro, Santander and Cordova. All around many naturalistic sites: Matasano's falls, Aguacate's natural pool and amazing pier inside social Athakai farm.^[1]

Concepción has a cool tropical rainforest climate (Af) due to altitude. It has very heavy rainfall year-round.

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