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El Playón
ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later
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Hierarchy
Growing Region Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)
Geography
Country Colombia
Province/State Santander Department
Coordinates 7.52, -73.18
Landscape
Area 460 km²
Terrain Western slopes of the Eastern Cordillera north of Bucaramanga; approximately the municipality of El Playón
Growing history
Documentation
Appellations 0
Accessions 0
Conservation
Populations none documented yet



El Playón is a cannabis growing area in the department of Santander, in north-eastern Colombia, covering the municipality of El Playón, north of Bucaramanga on the western slopes of the Eastern Cordillera. To the north the municipality borders the Provincia de Ocaña growing area. The area belongs to the Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) growing region.

Eradication figures

About 14 hectares of marijuana were eradicated in El Playón between June 2012 and October 2018, in 10 entries of the Ministry of Defence's open data, seven of them in 2014. The largest entry is of 5.2 hectares. El Playón accounts for most of the marijuana eradicated in Santander in the data, about 20 hectares in all.[1]

Accessions

No accessions documented yet.

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. "Erradicación". Portal de Datos Abiertos de Colombia (dataset) (in español). Retrieved 3 November 2026.