Parques del Río Medellín, Urban park along Medellín River, Colombia

Parques del Río Medellín is a linear park on both banks of the Medellín River, designed by the Colombian office Latitud Taller de Arquitectura y Ciudad, which won the international competition in 2013. Its first phase, opened in 2016, covered a 390-metre, seven-lane road tunnel and created a surface park with 1,776 trees of 126 species, 440 metres of cycle paths and 5,800 square metres of pedestrian walkways.

In 1942 Pedro Nel Gómez proposed a national park between the Nutibara and El Volador hills, with sports facilities, a botanical garden and navigable channels in the river; in 1943-1944 the government instead decreed parallel avenues along the river. The river was channelled with inclined concrete slabs from 1946, and in 2014 Agreement 48 of the Land Use Plan authorised the Parques del Río project. Work was awarded in 2015 for 162 billion pesos; section 1A opened in September 2016 and section 1B, 470 metres long, in November 2019.

The park's name comes from the Medellín River it borders, and its design was chosen in a 2013 international competition won by the local office Latitud Taller de Arquitectura y Ciudad. In 2016 the project received the Gran Premio of the 2nd Latin American Biennial of Landscape Architecture. The first stretch opened in September 2016, the second in November 2019.

The first phase buried a seven-lane road in a 390-metre tunnel, freeing the surface for the park. The tramo 1A opened in September 2016 and tramo 1B in November 2019, the latter 470 metres long and laid with a rail track for a possible future railway. The park stretches along the western bank of the Medellín River.

The first phase buried a seven-lane road in a 390-metre covered trench, and the freed surface was planted with 1,776 trees of 126 species, plus 440 metres of cycle lanes and 5,800 square metres of footpaths. The design by Latitud Taller de Arquitectura y Ciudad won the Gran Premio at the 2nd Latin American Biennial of Landscape Architecture in 2016.