Corinto (appellation)
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| Corinto | |
|---|---|
| ActiveRecorded as grown here since 2000 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Cordillera Central (Colombia) |
| Growing Area | Northern Cauca |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | Cauca Department |
| Coordinates | 3.14, -76.21 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 330 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately the municipality of Corinto, from the sugar-cane plain of the Cauca valley up the slopes of the Central Cordillera |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Corinto is a cannabis appellation in the Northern Cauca growing area, covering the municipality of Corinto in the department of Cauca, Colombia.
Geography
Cultivation
The Colombian Truth Commission dates crops in Corinto and Caloto to the 1950s.[2]: 73 A journalist from Riohacha told the historian Lina Britto that in the early years of the trade on the Caribbean coast, in the late 1960s, marijuana was said to come from Corinto.[3]: 79 A seed dealer interviewed in Toribío in 2018 said that marijuana first reached the vereda (rural district) of La Quebradiza in Corinto around 1980, and that creepy arrived there too.[4]: 58 A native cannabis type of Cauca is called corinto or corintiana.[5][4]: 86
In March 2011 the army reported destroying several greenhouses where marijuana was grown, in an operation in a vereda between Miranda and Corinto.[6] In July 2013 troops destroyed 3,000 plants of the type called cripi in six greenhouses in the vereda of Las Guacas,[7] and in September 2013 they dismantled two buildings planted with 900 cripi plants in Santa Helena, in Corinto, and El Vergel, in Caloto; the army attributed both crops to the FARC.[8]
In June 2019, at the request of the attorney general's office, the power supply was cut at 12 points in Corinto to stop it reaching marijuana greenhouses. Growers there had from 50 to 1,000 plants each; one in the vereda of Alto de Miraflores grew 200 plants on a plot of 20 by 18 metres, raised from clones, harvesting every three and a half months and selling at 18,000 to 20,000 pesos a pound. Of the 1,800 families counted in Corinto for the crop-substitution programme, 1,100 were involved in growing marijuana.[1]
A survey of the anti-narcotics police reported in 2021 located 101.2 hectares of marijuana in Corinto.[9] Indepaz estimated 2,500 growers in the municipality in 2023–2024.[10]: 46–47 The Ministry of Defence's eradication data list 43 entries of marijuana eradicated in Corinto between January 2010 and June 2019, about 28 hectares.[11]
Licensed growing
In 2016 the ministers of justice and health endorsed in Corinto the founding of a cooperative for medicinal cannabis; by 2019 six companies and nine associations in the municipality were setting up greenhouses.[1] In 2022 an association of 148 Afro-Colombian, peasant and indigenous growers in Corinto held licences for psychoactive and non-psychoactive cannabis but had not yet harvested a legal crop.[12]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Arias, Gloria (28 June 2019). "La marihuana, a punto de dejar a oscuras el campo caucano". El Tiempo (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.
- ↑ Britto, Lina (2020). Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-32547-0.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ Pachón, Diana Maria. "Marihuana de Corinto: Cien por ciento campesina" (PDF) (in español). Indepaz. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "El Ejército colombiano decomisa 2,3 toneladas de marihuana de las FARC". Telemedellín (in español). EFE. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cayó otro invernadero en el norte del Cauca". Diario Occidente (in español). 5 July 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "Golpe a cultivos ilícitos en Cauca". Diario Occidente (in español). 13 September 2013. 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.
- ↑ "El pesebre de marihuana que crece en el norte del Cauca". El Espectador (in español). 23 July 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2026.