Comuna 2
Comuna 2, called Santa Cruz, is located in the northeastern part of the city, characterized by its mountainous slopes, in a transitional area between the Medellin River and the higher elevations.
It covers an area of about 2.2 million square meters, or 220 hectares, and is home to about 114,000 people. It has a population density of 518 inhabitants per hectare, which is seven times higher than the city average. As an area that has been intensively populated since the 1960s and that has undergone various infrastructure and urban improvement projects, it currently includes areas that are fairly consolidated and others that are still precarious, especially those along the streams. The consolidation of Comuna 2 is the result of decades of public, private and, to a large extent, community investment. The fundraising of the community for improvements through self-help made it possible to build a large part of the neighborhoods that now make up Comuna 2, which for many decades had been abandoned by the local government and taken over by violence between criminal groups. This reality began to change in the mid-1990s.
Comuna 2
Comuna 2 is made up of 11 neighborhoods, which are administered by 13 Juntas de Acción Comunal (Community Action Boards), one for each neighborhood, as well as two boards that correspond to sectors within the neighborhoods: the María Auxiliadora sector, which belongs to the Playón de los Comuneros neighborhood, and the Santa Cruz Parte Alta sector, located in the Moscú No. 1 neighborhood. The neighborhoods, in turn, are grouped into three bangs, which reflect the processes of historical formation and social organization of the territory.
Comuna 2 is located about 8 km from the center of Medellin. Because of its proximity to the river that cuts through the city of Medellin, and because it is bordered by the metro line and main roads, Comuna 2 is now easily accessible by metro (Acevedo station), cable car (Acevedo and Andalucía stations), and bus. Considered one of the most precarious and violent areas of the city in the 1990s, it now has a wide range of services and shops, as well as educational, health, cultural, sports and leisure facilities, concentrated mainly in the Santa Cruz and Villa del Socorro neighborhoods, as well as public spaces and squares. In the last decade, however, it has not received significant investment from public authorities.
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