Valdivia, Antioquia

Valdivia is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia.

Part of the subregion of Northern Antioquia, its population was 11,511 at the 2018 census.

Valdivia was inhabited by the Nutabes people upon the arrival of the Spanish colonists.

In 1849 Spanish Pedro Vasquez acquired the land and cultivated the area, bringing labourers from other regions of Antioquia, that eventually began exploring and exploiting other land nearby.

Valdivia has an elevation moderated tropical rainforest climate (Af).