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Miss Arauca is the new International Joropo Queen

Miss Arauca was crowned “International Joropo Queen” Tuesday at an event in eastern Colombia celebrating the local Llanera culture, reported newspaper El Pais. Yulitsa Tatiana Siniva was praised for her artistic antics, the...

Colombia at Smithsonian: Music from the eastern plains

This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival highlights Colombia’s many cultures. While the institution’s researchers’ van got stuck somewhere in the eastern plains, they recorded some of the local joropo...

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