civic app for Medellín

Pulso

Live rain radar, river levels, air quality and mobility for the Aburrá Valley, built on Medellín's public SIATA feeds. No accounts, no tracking, no ads.

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All of this data is already public — anyone can read it — and it refreshes around the clock. It just lives in half a dozen separate portals, on maps drawn for a desktop browser. Pulso pulls those feeds into one app: every layer live, on a single map, legible at arm's length while you decide whether to walk or wait it out.

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What's inside

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Rain

Watch the rain move, not a still frame.

The valley makes its own weather. It can pour on Bello and stay dry in Envigado, and a single snapshot of the radar tells you nothing about which way that is heading.

Pulso animates the sweep, so you can see the band of rain move and judge whether it is coming your way or already past you. Long-press anywhere to read the intensity at that exact point.

The animated rain radar over the Aburrá Valley

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Rivers

Forty-four rivers and streams monitored, each in the colour of its level.

Every quebrada that SIATA gauges is drawn along its real course rather than dropped as a pin, so a rising creek reads as a line through the neighbourhoods it actually runs past.

Green through red, updated as the gauges report. Tap a stretch for the reading behind the colour.

River and quebrada levels drawn along their courses

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Air

Air quality where you are, not just where the sensors are.

Air quality is published station by station, which leaves you guessing about everywhere in between. Pulso interpolates across the stations and renders the result as a continuous surface.

So you get the ICA where you actually are, not at the monitoring station four kilometres up the valley.

Air quality rendered as a continuous field across the valley

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Getting around

Transit sits on the same map as the weather, because the decision is the same one: it is raining, so how do I get across the valley right now.

Metro line status with a live service alert — Metro12 lines, 114 stations, with live service alerts when a line goes down.

The bus route network across the valley — Buses335 routes and 5 289 stops. Tap any route to trace it end to end.

EnCicla dock availability by station — EnCiclaBikes and free docks per station, so you know before you walk there.

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Light and dark

Pulso follows your system appearance, or you can pin it to light or dark in Settings. Both are drawn to stay readable in direct sun.

The Metro line list in light appearance — Light

The same Metro line list in dark appearance — Dark

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Free forever

Pulso is not a business, and it is not trying to become one. There is no price, no subscription, no in-app purchase and no advertising — nothing to buy, and nothing about you to sell. It is built on data the valley already publishes openly, and it is handed back to the people who live here.

Open public data

Every layer comes from a feed that is already public: SIATA, Metro de Medellín, datos.gov.co, CityBikes. The valley measures it, the agencies publish it openly, and Pulso only puts all of it on one map.
Makes no money

No ads, no ad networks, no sponsorship, no subscription, no paid tier, no “pro” version. Pulso has never earned a peso, and there is no plan for it to. Your data is never sold or shared commercially.
For the valley

The Aburrá Valley already pays for these measurements. Pulso only makes them readable at a glance, for the people living between Caldas and Barbosa. Free, permanently.

The honest footnote: Pulso does collect anonymous crash and usage statistics, so that a bug you hit can be fixed. They carry nothing you typed and nothing about where you are, and you can switch them off in Settings → Privacy. That is the whole of it — the privacy policy spells out every field.

Every feed Pulso reads is published openly, by the organisation that produces it: SIATA, Metro de Medellín, datos.gov.co and CityBikes. Pulso reads only what those sources already publish — no privileged access, no agreement, no reserved channel. It is an independent app, it does not represent any government entity, and it is not affiliated with SIATA or the Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá. Their names and marks are used solely to attribute the data.