Barrancas (appellation)
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| Barrancas | |
|---|---|
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Colombia |
| Growing Area | Baja Guajira |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | La Guajira Department |
| Coordinates | 11.01, -72.71 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 290 km² |
| Terrain | The valley floor of the municipality of Barrancas, between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá; approximately the municipality below 200 m |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Barrancas is a cannabis appellation in the Baja Guajira growing area, covering the part of the municipality of Barrancas on the valley floor, in the department of La Guajira, Colombia.
Geography
The appellation is the municipality's land below 200 m, in the valley of the Ranchería; the town of Barrancas stands within the appellation. The municipality's higher ground lies in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá growing areas. The appellation adjoins the Fonseca appellation.
History
In their social history of the Colombian mafia, Darío Betancourt and Martha Luz García list Barrancas among the growing zones of the Baja Guajira during the bonanza marimbera of the 1970s.[1]: 54
Since 2000
About 45 hectares of marijuana were eradicated in Barrancas between September 2009 and March 2019, in 22 entries of the Ministry of Defence's open data, the most of any municipality in the Baja Guajira.[2]
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References
- ↑ Betancourt, Darío; García, Martha Luz (1994). Contrabandistas, marimberos y mafiosos: historia social de la mafia colombiana (1965–1992) (in español). Bogotá: TM Editores. ISBN 958-601-481-9.
- ↑ Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. "Erradicación". Portal de Datos Abiertos de Colombia (dataset) (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.