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Guatapé is a municipality of Colombia, located in the eastern sub region of the department of Antioquia. It is part of the Province of Water, Forestry and Tourism. It borders on the north with the municipality of Alejandría, on the east with the municipalities of San Rafael and San Carlos, on the south with the municipalities of Granada and El Peñol and on the west with El Peñol. Its head is 79 kilometers from the city of Medellín, capital of the department of Antioquia. The municipality has an area of 76 square kilometers.
The rock of Guatapé, or Piedra del Peñol, is a monolith 220 meters high located in Guatapé (Antioquia, Colombia). The stone of El Peñol is a granite mass, composed of quartz, feldspar and mica, was climbed by the first time on July 16, 1954, by an inhabitant of the area, Luis Eduardo Villegas López. Until now the stone still belongs to the Villegas family. You can now access its summit by climbing 659 steps built in the monolith.