Afro-Colombian Foodways

Where in the world

• Colombia territory

Communities and languages

• Afro-Colombian community documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• originates from West African Foodways probable
• related to African Diaspora Foodways documented

  Cartagena was one of the two legal slave ports of Spanish America. Rice, plantain, okra, coconut technique and the palenque are the documented inheritance.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• part of Afro-Colombian Pacific Foodways documented
• part of Palenquero Foodways documented

  San Basilio de Palenque is the first free town in the Americas and its cultural space is UNESCO-inscribed.

• related to Afro-Ecuadorian Foodways of Esmeraldas documented

  One Pacific Afro-descendant cultural region across the Colombia-Ecuador border, with the same coconut, fish and marimba tradition.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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