Conexión Vial Aburrá Oriente – Túnel de Oriente is a mega-project that connects the Metropolitan Area of Valle de Aburrá with Valle de San Nicolás, which are two of the most important regions of the department of Antioquia.

The project involves building approximately 24 kilometers including tunnels, viaducts and highway exchanges. It starts in Medellín, in the Baltimore section of the Las Palmas two-lane highway, where a highway interchange was built to allow access to the first tunnel, which is 774 meters long, followed by an open road section in the East-Central area of Valle de Aburrá leading to the project’s second tunnel, which is 8.2 km long, all of which incorporate high safety standards.

With investment of nearly COP 1 trillion, it is a benchmark connection that reduces travel time by half, and which translates into progress, development and well-being and makes a large-scale contribution to industry, tourism, the environment and mobility.