Tribes of Colombia’s Pacific Region

Ethnolinguistic Map of Indigenous Tribes in the Pacific Region of Colombia.

This region is home to many tribes speaking a multitude of indigenous languages inhabiting village communities spread far and wide with varying degrees of communication with the outside world. The connection many of these tribes have to this land extends back long before the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Today, they find themselves captives of different geographic realities that all the same are life giving and fraught with danger. Many have fallen victim to the… Continue reading