Miranda (appellation)
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| Miranda | |
|---|---|
| ActiveRecorded as grown here since 2000 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Cordillera Central (Colombia) |
| Growing Area | Northern Cauca |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | Cauca Department |
| Coordinates | 3.23, -76.22 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 190 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately the municipality of Miranda, from the Cauca valley onto the first hills of the Central Cordillera |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Miranda is a cannabis appellation in the Northern Cauca growing area, covering the municipality of Miranda in the department of Cauca, Colombia.
Geography
Cultivation
In June 1968 a police bulletin reported a farm in Miranda planted with marijuana.[2]: 220 In 2012 the news site La Silla Vacía reported the type called "Corinto" grown between Toribío and Miranda.[1] In March 2011 the army reported destroying several greenhouses where marijuana was grown, in an operation in a vereda between Miranda and Corinto.[3] The Colombian Truth Commission places the crop of the north of Cauca mainly in four municipalities on the Central Cordillera: Caloto, Corinto, Miranda and Toribío.[4]: 192 In June 2019 the power supply was cut at points in Miranda where, according to the attorney general's office, marijuana greenhouses drew electricity.[5]
A survey of the anti-narcotics police reported in 2021 located 13.1 hectares of marijuana in Miranda.[6] Indepaz estimated 400 growers in the municipality in 2023–2024.[7]: 46–47 The national crop-substitution programme signed agreements with 789 families in Miranda, all of them coca growers; Indepaz notes that the programme has so far taken in only coca growers.[7]: 52 The Ministry of Defence's eradication data list 11 entries of marijuana eradicated in Miranda between August 2016 and May 2019, about 2.6 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.
- ↑ Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo (2007). "La "prehistoria" de la marihuana en Colombia: consumo y cultivos entre los años 30 y 60" (PDF). Cuadernos de Economía (in español). XXVI (47): 205–222.
- ↑ "El Ejército colombiano decomisa 2,3 toneladas de marihuana de las FARC". Telemedellín (in español). EFE. 22 March 2011. 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 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.