Toribío (appellation)
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| Toribío | |
|---|---|
| ActiveRecorded as grown here since 2000 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Cordillera Central (Colombia) |
| Growing Area | Northern Cauca |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | Cauca Department |
| Coordinates | 2.98, -76.20 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 490 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately the municipality of Toribío, on the slopes of the Central Cordillera; most of it is indigenous reserve land |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Toribío is a cannabis appellation in the Northern Cauca growing area, covering the municipality of Toribío in the department of Cauca, Colombia.
Geography
The appellation is the municipality. It adjoins the Corinto appellation to the north, Caloto to the west and Jambaló to the south-west. Three indigenous reserves (resguardos) cover 88 per cent of the municipality, which is reached by a minor road subject to landslides in the rainy season;[1]: 88–89 they are the reserves of Toribío, San Francisco and Tacueyó.[2]: 51
Cultivation
A seed dealer interviewed in Toribío in 2018 said that marijuana reached the municipality around 1980, first in an area called El Naranjo, after Corinto.[1]: 58 A policy brief of the German-Colombian peace institute CAPAZ dates the first crops for adult use in Corinto and Toribío to the 1970s, and estimates that Toribío had about 5,000 growers in 2019.[3]: 2–3
People interviewed by the Dejusticia researchers Luis Felipe Cruz and Isabel Pereira said that the crop was concentrated more in Toribío than in the neighbouring municipalities; the authors give two reasons, that the reserves made it harder for the police to operate and that the municipality was isolated. The policy of the reserve councils towards the crop varied with the governor in office; in some veredas (rural districts), such as Betulia, the council did not allow it and plants were pulled up on sight.[1]: 88–90 In 2018 a Nasa grower in the corregimiento of Tacueyó had 200 plants on his plot and said that marijuana gave him up to four harvests a year against two of coffee; another grower had sown 1,500 plants on a ridge in rural Toribío.[4] In 2022 a Toribío grower said that the type most sown in the area was one called patimorada locally, after the colour of its stem.[5]
The growers' association El Gremio, formed in 2020, has its central board in Toribío.[2]: 22 Indepaz estimated 8,000 growers in the municipality in 2023–2024.[2]: 46–47 A survey of the anti-narcotics police reported in 2021 located 128.2 hectares of marijuana in Toribío,[6] and a UN Office on Drugs and Crime indicator published in 2017 placed 21 per cent of Cauca's light alerts for possible cannabis crops there.[1]: 85 The Ministry of Defence's eradication data list 15 entries of marijuana eradicated in Toribío between June 2011 and July 2019, about 12 hectares.[7]
Licensed growing
An association of Toribío that applied for a licence to grow medicinal cannabis was refused one; in November 2017 it opened a hostel with a cannabis museum, from which visitors could see the crops.[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cruz Olivera, Luis Felipe; Pereira Arana, Isabel (November 2021). Laberintos de prohibición y regulación: los grises de la marihuana en Colombia. Colección Dejusticia (in español). Bogotá: Editorial Dejusticia. ISBN 978-958-5597-98-3. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Espitia Cueca, Carlos Eduardo; Majbub Avendaño, Salomón (March 2024). La economía de la marihuana en el enclave productivo del Norte del Cauca (PDF) (Report) (in español). Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz (Indepaz). ISSN 1909-0900. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Granados, Diana; Rojas, Axel; López, William; Moriones, Germán; Anzola, Sebastián (August 2024). Regular para la paz: recomendaciones para la regulación del cannabis de uso adulto en el norte del Cauca (PDF) (Report). Policy Brief 10-2024 (in español). Bogotá: Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ). ISSN 2711-0346. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "El 'triángulo de oro' del cannabis". Semana (in español). 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "El pesebre de marihuana que crece en el norte del Cauca". El Espectador (in español). 23 July 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Méndez, Alicia Liliana (15 March 2021). "La Policía ubicó el mayor centro de cultivo de marihuana 'creepy'". El Tiempo (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. "Erradicación". Portal de Datos Abiertos de Colombia (dataset) (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.