Toro Gómez, María VictoriaMarín Calderón, Andrea Viviana2012-07-122012-07-1220071909-0455http://hdl.handle.net/10567/525In the following article we show the Program for the Protection and Control of the Ar Quality from the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley, designed primarily in 1998 by the universities of Antioquia, Pontificia Bolivariana and Politécnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid, and, afterwards, developed and adjusted by the Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá. This program has been the basis for the progress of several research and consulting works made by the AMVA, among which we have the monitoring of the air quality. We show ere a brief of its design, current way to work out, description of the stations, results obtained since 1993 and the projects developed aiming to get tools for the making of choices and the elaboration of programs to reduce air and atmospheric pollution, in order to increase life quality among the inhabitants of the region.esCalidad del airePrograma de protección y control de la calidad del aire del Área Metropolitana del Valle de AburráÁrea Metropolitana del Valle de AburráCorporación Universitaria LasallistaContaminación del aireMonitoreo del aireRed de monitoreo de la calidad del aire del Valle de AburráArticle