Itagüí (pronounced [itaˈɣwi]) is a city and municipality of Colombia, located in the south of the Aburrá Valley in the Antioquia Department.

There were two chapels in Itagüí in colonial times; one was in the place of the Tablaza that had been owned by Bruno Saldarriaga, built with the permission of the Bishop of Popayán, Francisco José de Figueredo (granted December 19, 1743).

On 13 May 1945, the Itagüi Library was unveiled, built by philanthropist Diego Echavarría Misas]p. In 1962, he began building the first formal City Hall.

The heights are: High Manzanillo and the hills of Three Sweet Names and El Cacique The main stream is the Medellín River, which forms the border with the municipalities of Envigado and Sabaneta.

The most important tributary of the river, in the town, is the creek Dona Maria Itagüi walking from west to east.

The CAMI is an urban complex that performs the functions of the local town hall in the subregion Itagui Aburrá Valley in the department of Antioquia in Colombia.

Itagüí is governed by a democratic system based on administrative decentralization processes generated from the proclamation of the Colombian Constitution of 1991.

Among its main functions is the administration of the resources of the municipality, to ensure the welfare and interests of their fellow citizens and represent them in the national government, while supporting local policies to improve their quality of life, such as health programs, housing, education and road infrastructure and maintain public order.

Although the town has been known Itagüí in the national as a locality with a strong industrial and commercial vocation, it would still be a major cultural center of the Aburrá Valley and the Antioquia department.

Itagüí shown to have important exponents of the art, in painting with Eladio Vélez, in writing, the poet Carlos Enrique Sierra and sculpture find Salvador Arango .

The rich cultural treasures customs of a population cheerful, hardworking, with a high degree of religiousness and the strength of its own that since ancient characterizes Antioquia department.

Recently opened Museum Graciliano Arcila Vélez, located in a historic district for Itagüí, rosary, as this is found indigenous parts of the tribes that inhabited this territory.

The city has four metro stations: (Itagui, Envigado, Sabaneta, and La Estrella) that link it directly to Medellín and other municipalities.