Caloto (appellation)
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| Caloto | |
|---|---|
| ActiveRecorded as grown here since 2000 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Cordillera Central (Colombia) |
| Growing Area | Northern Cauca |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | Cauca Department |
| Coordinates | 3.04, -76.37 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 270 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately the municipality of Caloto, from the Cauca valley into the first hills of the Central Cordillera |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Caloto is a cannabis appellation in the Northern Cauca growing area, covering the municipality of Caloto in the department of Cauca, Colombia.
Geography
The appellation is the municipality, on the western side of the growing area. It adjoins the Corinto appellation to the north-east, Toribío to the east and Jambaló to the south. The road east from the Pan-American Highway meets the first hills of the Central Cordillera and passes Caloto on its way to the corregimiento of El Palo, where the road to Toribío begins.[1]
Cultivation
The Colombian Truth Commission dates crops of marijuana in Caloto and Corinto to the 1950s.[2]: 73 In 2012 a woman of El Palo said that her husband, detained on suspicion of supporting the guerrilla, had a greenhouse in which he grew marijuana; in the vereda (rural district) of El Pedregal, between Caloto and Toribío, residents said that coca and marijuana were their livelihood.[1] The journalist Diana Maria Pachón found 2,000 plants of the type called corinto or corintiana on a farm reached from the track that runs from El Palo towards Tacueyó.[3] In September 2013 the army dismantled two buildings planted with 900 cripi plants in El Vergel, in Caloto, and Santa Helena, in Corinto, and attributed them to the FARC.[4] Caloto was one of the four municipalities where the attorney general's office asked for the power supply to marijuana greenhouses to be cut in June 2019.[5]
A survey of the anti-narcotics police reported in 2021 located 41.4 hectares of marijuana in Caloto.[6] Indepaz estimated 1,871 growers in the municipality in 2023–2024.[7]: 46–47 The Ministry of Defence's eradication data list 31 entries of marijuana eradicated in Caloto between September 2013 and July 2019, about 16 hectares.[8]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Graaff, David (4 November 2012). "La guerra en medio de los diálogos de paz". La Silla Vacía (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (August 2022). Colombia adentro: relatos territoriales sobre el conflicto armado. Valle y norte del Cauca (PDF). Hay futuro si hay verdad: Informe Final, tomo 11, vol. 12 (in español). Bogotá: Comisión de la Verdad. ISBN 978-628-7590-38-0. Retrieved 20 October 2026 – via Biblioteca Hegoa.
- ↑ Pachón, Diana Maria. "Marihuana de Corinto: Cien por ciento campesina" (PDF) (in español). Indepaz. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "Golpe a cultivos ilícitos en Cauca". Diario Occidente (in español). 13 September 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Arias, Gloria (28 June 2019). "La marihuana, a punto de dejar a oscuras el campo caucano". El Tiempo (in español). 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. "Erradicación". Portal de Datos Abiertos de Colombia (dataset) (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.