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…
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 singers. Links…
An experimental village in one of Colombia’s harshest regions has become a remarkable world model for self-sustainability and eco-awareness. According to the New York Times, more than 40 years ago in…
Most guidebooks on Colombia ignore the massive chunk of this country that lies to the east of the Andes Mountains. We cannot deny that guerrilla groups still hold sway in some of the…