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Kogi, Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kankuamo Foodways

Indigenous

The four peoples of the SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA — KOGI (Kággaba), ARHUACO (Iku), WIWA and KANKUAMO — hold the world’s highest coastal mountain as a single sacred territory bounded by the Línea Negra, and describe themselves as its Elder Brothers. Their agriculture is vertical: families farm at several altitudes at once, so that maize, beans, plantain, yuca, malanga, potato, COCA (chewed, not processed — a distinction that matters) and coffee all come from the same household. The Arhuaco cooperative ANEI has exported organic coffee under Indigenous ownership. ⚠ THEIR RELIGIOUS AND ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IS NOT RECORDED HERE, at their own consistent public request; the agriculture is.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Kogi community documented
  • Arhuaco community documented
  • Wiwa community documented
  • Kankuamo community documented

Languages: Cogui, Arhuaco, Malayo, Kankuamo

What is recorded

  • The Kogi, Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kankuamo hold the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta as a single territory bounded by the Línea Negra and practise vertical agriculture across multiple altitudinal zones within single households. Their religious and ecological knowledge is deliberately not recorded in this system, consistent with their own public position. documented

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