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Cordillera Central (Colombia) is a Growing Region: a named region that sits above Growing Areas and below the regional complex and gene pool. It groups three growing areas on the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes: Northern Cauca, Tolima and Quindío. The growing region of the same name in the Philippines is Cordillera Central. The growing areas of the Caribbean north belong to Northern Colombia; the Ariari, in Meta, belongs to neither region.
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Check the main page for the sources behind each statement. Discuss the boundary, the areas the region takes in, and the accessions and news items that belong to it here.
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Why the region is on the map
- No source read names the Central Cordillera as a growing region. The region groups three growing areas, each of which rests on its own sources; their pages give the evidence in full.
- Two sources tie the areas to the range or to one another. The truth commission's volume on the Valle and the north of Cauca (2022, p. 192) calls the north of Cauca a crucial subregion for marijuana, especially in the municipalities on the Central Cordillera (Caloto, Corinto, Miranda and Toribío). The University of Tolima bulletin (2021, p. 19) suggests that the concentration of illicit crops in south-western Tolima may be linked to their growth in northern Cauca and Valle del Cauca. The page gives both as the sources put them.
- Quindío is in the region on the evidence of its own page: the two Punto Rojo accessions from near Calarcá, and licensed growing.
The name
The page takes the name of the range, Cordillera Central, with the country in brackets, because Cordillera Central is the growing region in northern Luzon. Each page carries a hatnote to the other.
Growing status
The status is Active. Northern Cauca and Tolima are Active on fields and eradication reported from 2007 to 2024, and Quindío on the 2023 harvest of the Calarcá population and licensed growing in 2019 and 2023. No source says that growing has ended in any of them.
How the border is drawn
- The border is the three growing areas' own borders, joined, with no land added: Northern Cauca (the municipalities of Caloto, Corinto, Jambaló, Miranda and Toribío), Tolima (the department) and Quindío (the department). Where the region and an area share an edge, the line is the area's.
- The areas adjoin, so the region is one shape, about 27,600 km², the figure in the infobox. Where the departmental lines of Tolima and Quindío, and of Tolima and Cauca, do not quite meet in the source data, the small gaps between them are inside the region.
- The region is drawn on the documented tracts only. The parts of the Central Cordillera in Valle del Cauca, Caldas, Risaralda, Antioquia and Huila, and in Cauca south of the five municipalities, are outside it: the Ministry of Defence's eradication dataset lists only small or scattered marijuana totals there (for example 1.2 hectares in Florida, Valle del Cauca, in 2018; 3.3 in La Vega, Cauca, in 2015; 9.3 in San Agustín, Huila, 2008–2018), and no source read describes growing there.
- The infobox point (4.01, −75.34) is the centre of the shape, not a field.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Sources
- All the sources on the page except the two on licensed growing in Quindío are cited on the pages of the growing areas and were read there; the page repeats what they say, at their scale. The two Quindío sources (El Tiempo, 10 March 2019; Radio Nacional de Colombia, 7 December 2023) were read in full.
- Ministry of Defence, Erradicación (open dataset). The totals for Northern Cauca and Tolima are those given on their pages. The dataset has no marijuana rows for Quindío.
Not used
- Marijuana carried through Tolima and Quindío from Cauca is not evidence of growing where it was seized; the Tolima and Quindío Talk pages list those reports.
- Coca and opium poppy in southern Tolima and in Cauca are separate crops and are not used.