Sabaneta
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Key facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Department
- Antioquia Department
- Mayor
- Santiago Montoya
- Municipality and town
- 15 km (5.8 sq mi)
- Urban
- 4.53 km (1.75 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 1,550 m (5,090 ft)
- Density
- 5,500/km (14,000/sq mi)
- Urban density
- 15,500/km (40,300/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Sabaneteño
- Time zone
- UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)
- Area code
- 57 + 4
- Website
- Official website (in Spanish)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Antioquia
- Population
- 82375
- Area
- 15
- Elevation
- 1550
- Body of water
- Medellín River
- Official website
- www.sabaneta.gov.co
- Image
- Panorámica de Sabaneta.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0057 4
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Encyclopedic overview
Sabaneta is a municipality of Colombia, located in the Aburrá Valley of the Antioquia department. It is bordered on the north by the municipalities of La Estrella, Itagüí and Envigado, on the east by Envigado, on the south by Caldas, and on the west by La Estrella.
It is the smallest municipality in Colombia, with an area of only 15 km. It is known as the Municipio Modelo de Colombia ("Model Municipality of Colombia") or the Vallecito de Encanto ("Charming little Valley"). The municipality owes its name to the diminutive "sabana," a Spanish word meaning "savannah".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sabaneta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.