 Helipad overlooking the City of Medellín | |
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| Location | Medellín |
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| Coordinates | 6°7′4″N 75°35′6″W / 6.11778°N 75.58500°W |
| Status | Closed |
| Opened | 1991 |
| Closed | July 1992 |
| Country | Colombia |
| Medellín Cartel |
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La Catedral was a personal prison overlooking the city of Medellín, in Colombia. The prison was built to specifications ordered by Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar, under a 1991 agreement with the Colombian government in which Escobar would surrender to authorities and serve a maximum term of five full years and the Colombian government would not extradite him to the United States. The prison now is administered as a monastery by Catholic monks of the Benedictine Order.