Exploring the Unseen Colombia: Day 1
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2024
- Welcome to our adventure in Quibdo, Colombia! Join me as I embark on a journey through this under-visited part of Colombia. In this video, I'll take you along for my first day in Quibdo . Only a 30 min flight from Medellin but feels worlds apart.
In prehistoric times the Chocó rainforest and mountains constituted a major barrier dividing the Mesoamerican and Andean civilisations. The high rainfall and the extremely humid climate did not attract the Spanish colonists. The Emberá Indians ceded much of their territory to the Spanish Franciscan order in 1648. Subsequent attacks on colonial outposts by hostile tribes discouraged attempts at settlement. Six years later, the Spanish began again to colonize the region, eventually establishing some lumber camps and plantations where they used enslaved Africans as workers.
It was not until the nineteenth century when there was interest in finding a shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to avoid traveling via the Straits of Magellan that the Chocó region again became of significant interest to European colonial powers, as the Atrato River Valley was thought the best possibility for this purpose by the explorer Alexander von Humboldt; however it was eventually shelved in favour of the Panama Canal. At the same time research on using the Chocó to connect the Pacific and Atlantic was being carried out, gold and platinum were discovered in the Atrato Valle] and this ensured Quibdó's growth and status as the chief town in the region.
Another crucial development at this time was the migration of freed black slaves into the Chocó; they were primarily working in shifting cultivation to cope with the extreme leaching from the super-humid climate. They also fished and harvested forest products.
The 1853 watercolors by Manuel María Paz document two mestizo or European men with an Afro-Colombian street vendor, and depict the dress of Afro-Colombian and European women in the town square.
The Afro-Colombian communities established trade with highland cities such as Medellín via rough mule trails that were used until the 1950s.[9] A combination of population growth and declining values for the region's natural resources gradually resulted in an economic downturn for the region and especially Quibdó.
00:00 - Start
02:07 - Hotel
03:51 - Walking the Streets
06:44 - Barbershop
07:26 - Recreational Center
12:39 - Taxi ride back
13:51 - Entering The Mall
Shot-out to @ACEDTVL
#colombia #choco #quibdó #diaspora #african #black - Zábava
Thanks for taking us off the beaten path...again...great video bro!
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Thankyou brother , working on the next one now .
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