Jericó is a town, municipality and Catholic bishopric in the Colombian department of Antioquia.

The distance reference from Medellín city, the capital of the department, is 104 km (64.6 miles).

During a territorial rearrangement on the country on 1908, Jericó became the capital of the homonymous department until 1911.

[4] In 2013, Jericó became the third municipality in Antioquia to be named a Pueblo Patrimonio (heritage town) of Colombia.

[5] Its Catedral de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy, is the episcopal cathedral see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jericó (founded 1915, when the first cathedral was built).