Fonseca (appellation)
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| Fonseca | |
|---|---|
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Colombia |
| Growing Area | Baja Guajira |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | La Guajira Department |
| Coordinates | 10.87, -72.84 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 120 km² |
| Terrain | The valley floor of the municipality of Fonseca, 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 |
Fonseca is a cannabis appellation in the Baja Guajira growing area, covering the part of the municipality of Fonseca 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 Fonseca 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 Barrancas appellation.
History
In their social history of the Colombian mafia, Darío Betancourt and Martha Luz García list Fonseca among the growing zones of the Baja Guajira during the bonanza marimbera of the 1970s.[1]: 54
Since 2000
About 8 hectares of marijuana were eradicated in Fonseca between February 2014 and June 2017, in six entries of the Ministry of Defence's open data.[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.