Descripción: “...Medellín cuenta con importantes antecedentes de intervención rural: parques ecológicos campesinos, de bordes urbano-rurales, distritos de manejo integrado, agrario y rural, áreas de reserva y planes especiales, pero aún falta hacer coherentes las medidas e inversiones en función de las oportunidades endógenas con responsabilidad social y ecológica e impacto en la calidad de vida de las comunidades tradicionales de ese espacio rural.Abstract: Planning, territorial ordering and management of the countryside need an approach and consensus around the notion of rural in metropolitan contexts, systemic interdependent to the phenomenon of urbanization, population dynamics, economic model and of occupation of the province, in order to reveal the new functions or strategic roles that this space fulfills in the development, from the culturalist perspective of sustainability, recovery, and improvement of the ecosystemic connectivity, to the social and economic emergency of diversification of the activities productive: farming, forest, mining, agro-industrial and of environmental and ecotouristic services. ...”