San Juan del Cesar (appellation)
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| San Juan del Cesar | |
|---|---|
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Colombia |
| Growing Area | Baja Guajira |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | La Guajira Department |
| Coordinates | 10.72, -73.00 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 150 km² |
| Terrain | The valley floor of the municipality of San Juan del Cesar, 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 |
San Juan del Cesar is a cannabis appellation in the Baja Guajira growing area, covering the part of the municipality of San Juan del Cesar on the valley floor, in the department of La Guajira, Colombia.
Geography
The appellation is the municipality's land below 200 m, on the valley floor between the two ranges. The town of San Juan del Cesar stands above 200 m, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta growing area, where most of the municipality lies; its eastern edge reaches the Serranía del Perijá. The appellation adjoins the Villanueva appellation.
History
In their social history of the Colombian mafia, Darío Betancourt and Martha Luz García list San Juan del Cesar among the growing zones of the Baja Guajira during the bonanza marimbera of the 1970s.[1]: 54
Since 2000
About 1.5 hectares of marijuana were eradicated in San Juan del Cesar between March 2012 and February 2019, in three 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.