Becerril (appellation)
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| Becerril | |
|---|---|
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Colombia |
| Growing Area | Serranía del Perijá |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | Cesar Department |
| Coordinates | 9.75, -73.10 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 569 km² |
| Terrain | The mountain part of the municipality of Becerril, on the Colombian side of the Serranía del Perijá; approximately the municipality at or above 200 m |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Becerril is a cannabis appellation in the Serranía del Perijá growing area, covering the part of the municipality of Becerril on the range, in the department of Cesar, Colombia.
Geography
The appellation is the municipality's land at or above 200 m, on the Colombian side of the Serranía del Perijá. The town of Becerril stands below that line, in the valley, outside the appellation. The appellation adjoins the Agustín Codazzi appellation to the north.
History
In July 1977, during the bonanza marimbera, the newspaper Diario del Norte reported that police and F-2 agents, in an operation from the air, had seized 380,000 marijuana plants growing on ten hectares in the vereda (rural district) of San Jenaro, which the report placed in the corregimiento of Becerril, municipality of Codazzi. They detained fifteen workers who looked after the crop.[1]: 98
The six reserves of the Yukpa lie in the municipalities of La Paz, Agustín Codazzi and Becerril. The marijuana boom of the 1970s brought a new wave of migration to the region, accompanied by violence over control of the smuggling routes.[2]
Since 2000
Marijuana was eradicated in Becerril in July 2014 and January 2020, about 3.6 hectares in two entries of the Ministry of Defence's open data.[3]
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References
- ↑ Rada Verdecia, Iván Alonso (2018). Cultivadores, comerciantes y marimberos. Historia social del municipio de Villanueva – Guajira, 1974–1986 (Licenciatura en Ciencias Sociales thesis) (in español). Bogotá: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. hdl:20.500.12209/10543.
- ↑ Sáenz, Julián (19 August 2019). "Colombia: Indigenous Yukpa besieged by deforestation and armed conflict". Mongabay. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. "Erradicación". Portal de Datos Abiertos de Colombia (dataset) (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.