Megapark along the Medellin riverMedellin MegaPark – Medellin is set to take on another enormous project. The city will be turning the Medellin river banks into a giant park that spans more than 1,047 acres, from Sabanetta in the south to Bello in the north. “Without at doubt this will be one of the biggest and most transcendental projects for the present and the future of our city,” said Medellin mayor Aníbal Gaviria Correa. The project will commence on April 18th, 2013 with an international architecture and engineering contest. The contest winner will have their design selected to be used in the building of the MegaPark. This new MegaPark in Medellin will change the landscape, transportation routs, and lives of the inhabitants. Construction will take years, but I’m sure it will be worth the wait.

Glossary

Enormous: is an adjective meaning very large.
River banks: is a noun.  It’s the areas of land that border the river.
Spans: is a verb meaning to expand from one point to another or from one side to another.
Landscape: is a noun referring to all of the features you see when looking at a large area of land or country side.

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The Medellin Buzz is written in a way that is easy to understand.  The difficult vocabulary words are in bold, these words are defined in the Glossary.