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Afro-Colombian Pacific Foodways

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The Pacific coast is the heart of Afro-Colombian Colombia: Chocó is among the most Afro-descendant departments in the Americas, and Buenaventura, Tumaco, Quibdó and Guapi are Black cities. Free and maroon communities — PALENQUES — formed in these rivers during slavery, and Law 70 of 1993 recognised collective land title for Black communities on the Pacific, which is a land-tenure fact and therefore a food-system fact. The kitchen is the coconut-and-herb one above; the culture around it includes the MARIMBA DE CHONTA and the cantos of the southern Pacific, inscribed by UNESCO, and the FIESTAS DE SAN PACHO in Quibdó, also inscribed. ⚠ THE REGION HAS ALSO BORNE SOME OF THE WORST OF THE ARMED CONFLICT, including the Bojayá massacre, and displacement is a food-system event.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Afro-Colombians community documented

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • The Colombian Pacific littoral has a majority Afro-descendant population; Chocó is among the most Afro-descendant departments in the Americas. Law 70 of 1993 established collective land title for Black communities on the Pacific. The marimba music and traditional chants of the southern Pacific, and the Fiestas de San Pacho in Quibdó, are inscribed on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list. documented
  • Law 70 establishes collective land title for Black communities on the Pacific — a land-tenure change and therefore a food-system change. documented

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