Medina is a municipality and town of Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 in the department

Departments of Colombia

Colombia is an unitary republic formed by thirty-two departments and a Capital District . Each department has a Governor and a Department Assembly , elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods...

 of Cundinamarca

Cundinamarca Department

- Origin of the name :The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probably derived from Quechua. Meaning "Condor's Nest", it was used in pre-Columbian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands....

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External links

Medina official website

Medina, historic and geographically, has more in common with the Llanos of Colombia than with the Andean department of Cundinamarca, of which it is an appendage. Cattle and tropical crops like corn, rice and plantain are its economic engine. Its land is very fertile, its climate is soothed by gentle breezes that descend from its Farallones, or cliffs.
People. "Del rey abajo ninguno" From the king down, no one rules over its inhabitants. In a cattle driven society your social standing depends not on how much earn and how much land you own, but how well you are respected for your horse riding control, social graces, your proud standing among neighbors and friends, your ability to withstand suffering and adversity without complaining, and your generosity towards the needy, specially the children and the widows.
Oil. Oil was discovered in the 1930s but it wasn't until the 1980s when it started to flow towards Villavicencio and Bogota in heavy oil tankers.