Neighbourhood · Medellín · Colombia · 1495 m a.s.l.
Conquistadores
Plátano maduro: yellow, soft and sweet. Fried in slices.
The neighbourhood I live in, and one you will not find in any guidebook.
Conquistadores is a wedge between three axes: Avenida Bolivariana to the northwest, the Medellín river with Avenida Regional to the northeast, and Avenida 33 to the south. Administratively it is barrio 1105 in comuna 11, Laureles-Estadio, the same part of the city as Laureles, only closer to the river and noticeably calmer.
Estrato 5. In practice that means maintained pavements, street lighting, a doorman in the buildings, and utility bills with a surcharge.
What it is like
A residential neighbourhood with palm trees between the buildings. Brick blocks from the sixties and seventies next to new towers, balconies overgrown with plants, and among them shops, cafés and bars used by people who live here rather than by visitors.
During the day there is bustle from the university and the avenues around it; in the evening it settles, because the nightlife is further west on Avenida 70. That is exactly the difference that moves people here after a year in El Poblado.
And dogs. I have never seen this many dogs and people walking them anywhere, and the pavements are clean.
What is within walking distance
The river and Parques del Río, the Barefoot Park and the centre across the bridge, the cycle path along the water, a shopping centre with a supermarket, a market hall, the Pontificia Bolivariana campus, and Avenida 70 with its bars to the west.
The metro is about equally far in either direction from Conquistadores: across the bridge to line A, or a walk northwest to line B. It is not around the corner, and that is the one flaw.
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Prices from here
What it costs- Agraz per a 250 g punnet15 900 COP
- Gold pineapple per 500 g3 100 COP
- Hass avocado per 500 g5 750 COP
- Large avocado per a piece6 400 COP
- Bacardí Añejo per a 700 ml bottle67 200 COP
- Bananas per 500 g1 740 COP
- Blueberries per a 125 g punnet7 760 COP
- Potatoes (papa capira) per 500 g2 210 COP
- Broccoli per 500 g4 420 COP
- Clorox bleach per a 3.8 l jug16 300 COP
- Margarita Onduladas crisps per a 190 g bag7 000 COP
- Natu Chips plantain crisps per a 105 g bag8 000 COP
- Bimbo sliced bread per a loaf8 150 COP
- Grilling chorizo per a kilo20 950 COP
- White onion per 500 g2 580 COP
- Red onion per 500 g1 990 COP
- Courgette per 500 g2 200 COP
- Rexona deodorant per a 150 ml can22 300 COP
- Figs (brevas) per 500 g9 380 COP
- Granadilla per 500 g7 600 COP
- Fit Cook granola per a 300 g bag46 550 COP
- Guanábana per 500 g4 830 COP
- Household rubber gloves per a pack of two pairs7 560 COP
- Havana Club Especial per a 700 ml bottle83 700 COP
- Heineken, six bottles per a pack of six 330 ml bottles24 150 COP
- Gillette Fusion5 razor per one38 450 COP
- Washing up sponges per a pack of two6 800 COP
- Beef grilling steak per a kilo38 980 COP
- Beef solomo per a kilo42 980 COP
- Seedless white grapes per 500 g13 500 COP
- Pears per an 800 g pack10 100 COP
- Pink Lady apples per a 1 kg net11 080 COP
- Green apples per 500 g7 450 COP
- Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey per a 700 ml bottle134 700 COP
- Dejamu Greek yoghurt per a 420 ml tub14 650 COP
- San Martín kefir per a 400 ml bottle15 900 COP
- Heinz ketchup per a 567 g bottle22 450 COP
- Kinder Joy per one 20 g egg8 200 COP
- Coconut per 500 g3 750 COP
- Sweetcorn per 500 g6 430 COP
- Chicken fillet per a kilo31 070 COP
- Chicken breast per a kilo24 300 COP
- Chicken legs per a kilo16 900 COP
- Bouquet of flowers per a bouquet36 600 COP
- Juan Valdez organic coffee per a 1 kg bag145 500 COP
- La Bastilla ground coffee per a 390 g pack19 800 COP
- Oma whole bean coffee per a 300 g bag46 250 COP
- Pergamino Lomaverde coffee per a 360 g bag41 300 COP
- Doria lasagne per a 400 g pack12 700 COP
- Tahiti lime per 500 g2 650 COP
- Kraft mayonnaise per a 443 ml pack23 900 COP
- Mamey per 500 g2 880 COP
- Mandarins per 500 g4 280 COP
- Almonds per a 100 g bag14 600 COP
- Mango per 500 g5 750 COP
- Rama margarine per a 500 g tub15 200 COP
- Honey per a 500 g jar8 300 COP
- Melon per 500 g1 750 COP
- Watermelon per 500 g1 450 COP
- Minced beef per a kilo39 980 COP
- Cape gooseberry (uchuva) per a 400 g punnet5 500 COP
- Carrots per 500 g1 300 COP
- Colanta butter per a 250 g block15 450 COP
- Bivien liquid soap per a 400 ml bottle15 000 COP
- Nescafé Tradición per a 170 g jar30 900 COP
- Old Parr 12 per a 750 ml bottle145 100 COP
- Extra virgin olive oil per a 500 ml bottle16 950 COP
- Gluten free oats per a 500 g bag8 310 COP
- Bell pepper per 500 g6 880 COP
- Papaya per 500 g2 370 COP
- Poker beer per a 330 ml can3 590 COP
- Poker beer, pack of twelve per a pack of 12 cans30 900 COP
- Canned beer per a can3 590 COP
- Pampers nappies per a pack of 4475 900 COP
- Green plantain per 500 g1 180 COP
- Tangelo orange per 500 g6 150 COP
- Ariel washing powder per a 3.3 kg pack41 550 COP
- Bin bags per a pack of 304 420 COP
- Industrial bin bags per a roll of 1020 000 COP
- Raffaello per a 30 g pack6 050 COP
- Cherry tomatoes per 500 g11 500 COP
- Chonto tomatoes per 500 g2 950 COP
- Cola & Pola refajo per a 330 ml can2 840 COP
- Ron Medellín 8 años per a 750 ml bottle80 000 COP
- Ron Medellín Dos Maderas 18 años per a 750 ml bottle274 100 COP
- Castellano risotto rice per a 500 g pack18 900 COP
- Curly lettuce per a 200 g bag1 940 COP
- Mezclum baby salad mix per a box12 200 COP
- Dejamu skyr per a 375 ml tub15 450 COP
- Sunflower oil per a 2 l bottle18 590 COP
- Sprite per a 1.6 l bottle5 300 COP
- Don Julio Blanco tequila per a 700 ml bottle246 900 COP
- Ekono toilet paper per a pack of 12 rolls14 800 COP
- Tree tomato per 500 g6 900 COP
- Wheat tortillas per a pack of 88 420 COP
- Tuna in water per a three pack of 240 g8 290 COP
- De Cecco pasta per a 500 g pack14 850 COP
- Pork chop per a kilo23 980 COP
- Pork leg per a kilo21 980 COP
- Pork tenderloin per a 500 g pack15 320 COP
- Pork shoulder per a kilo18 680 COP
- Pork belly per a kilo25 900 COP
- JP Chenet Merlot wine per a 750 ml bottle64 300 COP
- Viña Tarapacá Reserva wine per a 750 ml bottle88 800 COP
- Oral-B toothbrushes per a pack of two27 100 COP
- Colgate Luminous White toothpaste per a tube19 762 COP
- Sensodyne toothpaste per a 90 g tube22 700 COP
- Listerine mouthwash per a 500 ml bottle33 550 COP
- Hindú black tea per a box of 25 bags8 350 COP
- Beetroot per 500 g2 480 COP
- Ajax floor cleaner per a 5 l jug45 300 COP
- D'Origenn 80 % Huila chocolate per a 50 g bar20 200 COP
- Lök chocolate per a 70 g bar23 850 COP
- Head & Shoulders shampoo per a 375 ml bottle22 650 COP
- Herbal Essences shampoo per a 400 ml bottle29 520 COP
- La Muñeca spaghetti per a 250 g pack2 090 COP
- Plums per 500 g5 820 COP
- Whole mushrooms per a 250 g box10 720 COP
- Sliced mushrooms per a 500 g pack18 500 COP
- Pošta, 8.6 kg balík, 230 km70 000 COP
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