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same as the nearing Duitama and Sogamoso. Or as many cities of a similar population and a similar homicide rate. It's an small city with not so much poverty, also, no drug cartels, guerrillas or mafias as in other areas of the country.
The figures are for 2015:
Envigado: 5,39 murders every 100.000 people
Itagüí: 13,44 (the number decreased more in 2016, I think).
El Carmen de Bolívar: 6,65
Lorica: 12,69 (it was at one cipher the previous year)
Tierralta: 5
Malambo: 7,42
Fusagasugá: 10,41
Chía: 6,32
Madrid: 11,59
Cajicá: 7,03
Pitalito: 17 (not bad for a city near so many guerrilla areas).
Pamplona: 5,23
Floridablanca: 9,80
San Gil: 8,80
Girón: 10,53
Melgar: 8,32
most of these cities are in the eastern part of the country, which, as I said, historically took much less of an impact of organized crime, cartels, etc, than areas of Western colombia where the main rutes of drug trade were established. A good part of the municipalities in the eastern departaments of Cundinamarca, Boyaca and Santander (the three of which make for a population of like 6 million people) only have 1 or 2 homicides in 2016, or didn't have any (the last is especially true for Boyaca where like 70% of the municipalities didn't have homicides). But if you took Valle del Cauca, all of these cities in the sphere of influence of Cali (Tuluá, Palmira, Buga, Cartago, etc) still have very high homicide rates, drug mafias are too ingrained there since Cartel de Cali and before.
in my city (Zipaquira) homicide rate went from 7 per 100.000 to 20 per 100.000 from 2014 to 2015. the number fluctuates a lot for being a small city in Bogota's sphere of influence. This year so far we haven't had any homicides, I think.
The small towns are very nice, they have similar rates to US towns. It does fluctuate a lot since small towns have such low population. The suburbs like Envigado, Itagui, they seem very nice too, whereas it seems like in Mexico and Brazil most of the crime is pushed out to the suburbs. Good to hear that most places seem to be low-crime, I bet there are many cute towns in Colombia to visit or even live in that are generally safe
Among the 50 most violent cities of the world, 47 are in Americas. The other 3 are in South Africa. 2014 data:
1 San Pedro Sula Honduras 1,317 769,025 171.20
2 Caracas Venezuela 3,797 3,273,863 115.98
3 Acapulco México 883 847,735 104.16
4 João Pessoa Brasil 620 780,738 79.41
5 Distrito Central Honduras 928 1,195,456 77.65
6 Maceió Brasil 733 1,005,319 72.91
7 Valencia Venezuela 1086 1,527,920 71.08
8 Fortaleza Brasil 2,541 3,818,380 66.55
9 Cali Colombia 1,530 2,344,734 65.25
10 São Luís Brasil 908 1,403,111 64.71
11 Natal Brasil 931 1,462,045 63.68
12 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela 536 862,720 62.13
13 San Salvador El Salvador 1,067 1,743,315 61.21
14Cape TownSudáfrica2,2443,740,026 60.00
15 Vitoria Brasil 1074 1,884,096 57.00
16 Cuiabá Brasil 467 827,104 56.46
17 Salvador Brasil 2,129 3,919,864 54.31
18 Belém Brasil 1,130 2,129,515 53.06
19 ST. Louis Estados Unidos 159 318,416 49.93
20 Teresina Brasil 416 840,600 49.49
21 Barquisimeto Venezuela 601 1,293,693 46.46
22 Detroit Estados Unidos 309 688,701 44.87
23 Goiânia Brasil 633 1,412,364 44.82
24 Culiacán México 384 910,564 42.17
25 Guatemala Guatemala 1,288 3,074,054 41.90
26 Kingston Jamaica 495 1,219,366 40.59
27 Juárez México 538 1,347,165 39.94
28 New Orleans Estados Unidos 150 378,715 39.61
29 Recife Brasil 1518 3,887,261 39.05
30 Campina Grande Brasil 153 402,912 37.97
31 Obregón México 120 318,184 37.71
32 Palmira Colombia 114 302,727 37.66
33 Manaus Brasil 749 2,020,301 37.07
34 Nuevo Laredo México 142 406,598 34.92 35Nelson Mandela Bay Sudáfrica4021,152,115 34.89
36 Pereira Colombia 162 467,185 34.68
37 Porto Alegre Brasil 1,442 4,161,237 34.65
38DurbanSudáfrica11873,442,361 34.48
39 Aracaju Brasil 312 912,647 34.19
40 Baltimore Estados Unidos 211 622,104 33.92
41 Victoria México 117 345,080 33.91
42 Belo Horizonte Brasil 1,926 5,767,414 33.39
43 Chihuahua México 289 868,145 33.29
44 Curitiba Brasil 587 1,864,416 31.48
45 Tijuana México 502 1,678,880 29.90
46 Macapá Brasil 129 446,757 28.87
47 Cúcuta Colombia 183 643,666 28.43
48 Torreón México 330 1,186,637 27.81
49 Medellín Colombia 657 2,441,123 26.91
50 Cuernavaca México 168 660,215 25.45
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