Santa Marta (appellation)
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| Santa Marta | |
|---|---|
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Colombia |
| Growing Area | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
| Geography | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Province/State | Magdalena Department |
| Coordinates | 11.09, -73.87 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 1,790 km² |
| Terrain | The mountain part of the municipality of Santa Marta, on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; approximately the municipality above 200 m |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Santa Marta is a cannabis appellation in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta growing area, covering the mountain part of the municipality of Santa Marta, in the department of Magdalena, Colombia.
Geography
History
A confidential report of the Colombian foreign ministry in 1952 said that Santa Marta had become an important source of marijuana sent to Florida ports in banana ships, and that a man called "T el T" grew it on a farm near the city.[3]: 213–214 Santa Marta Gold is the name under which the marijuana of the Sierra Nevada became known to consumers in the United States;[4] the historian Lina Britto calls "Colombian Golden or Santa Marta Gold" an improved-seed strain, the first local strain made for export, in the early 1970s.[5]: 166, 174
According to El Heraldo, Hernán Giraldo, who came to Santa Marta in 1968 and later led armed self-defence groups in the Sierra, took up growing marijuana like other peasants, in places that included Minca and Quebrada El Sol, in Guachaca.[6]
Since 2000
The Ministry of Defence's eradication data list 400 entries of marijuana eradicated in Santa Marta between November 2007 and July 2020, about 311 hectares.[7] An early-warning alert of the national ombudsman's office in May 2018 reported that marijuana growing had increased in Minca, Don Diego, Buritaca, Tayrona park, Trompito Alto and Mendihuaca, in small, scattered plots, and that criminal groups handed out the seed and bought the harvest at prices they set.[2]: 16–17
In September 2019 the police and the army's high-mountain battalion pulled up 1,653 marijuana plants and 2,560 coca plants on a plot of about four hectares in the vereda of Miramar, in Guachaca.[8] In November 2019 the battalion and investigators of the attorney general's office eradicated 5,228 marijuana plants, about a hectare, in the vereda of Colinas de Calabazo, in Guachaca, and attributed the crop to the criminal group Los Pachencas.[9] In May 2020 the police destroyed about two hectares, some 10,000 plants, at Altos de Jolonura, in the rural part of the city, which they also attributed to Los Pachencas.[10]
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References
- ↑ Defensoría del Pueblo, Sistema de Alertas Tempranas (2 December 2025). Alerta Temprana Estructural 020-25 (Report) (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Defensoría del Pueblo, Sistema de Alertas Tempranas (7 May 2018). Alerta Temprana N° 045-18 (PDF) (Report) (in español). Retrieved 19 October 2026 – via Indepaz.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Weeds of peace". International Drug Policy Consortium. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ Britto, Lina (2010). "A Trafficker's Paradise: The "War On Drugs" and the New Cold War in Colombia". Contemporánea: Historia y problemas del siglo XX. 1 (1): 159–177. ISSN 1688-7638.
- ↑ "El poderío de Hernán Giraldo en la Sierra a punta de sangre y destierro". El Heraldo (in español). 26 January 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. "Erradicación". Portal de Datos Abiertos de Colombia (dataset) (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "Erradican 4 hectáreas de cultivos de marihuana y cocaína en la Sierra Nevada". Seguimiento (in español). 4 September 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Iguarán, Agustín (29 November 2019). "Erradican en Sierra Nevada 5.228 matas de marihuana". El Heraldo (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "Policía destruyó dos hectáreas de marihuana en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta". Santa Marta Al Día (in español). 24 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2026.