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La Vega (Cauca) treats the municipality of La Vega, in the department of Cauca in Colombia, as a cannabis growing area. The department as an administrative unit is treated at Cauca Department, and Colombia's law on cannabis at Colombia. The five municipalities of the north of Cauca are treated at Northern Cauca.
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Why La Vega is a growing area
- The only source for the area is the Ministry of Defence's open dataset, Erradicación. It lists 2 entries of marijuana eradicated in La Vega, on 8 April 2015 (1.3 hectares) and 19 May 2015 (2 hectares), 3.3 hectares in all (downloaded 4 November 2026). Eradication of a crop is evidence that it was grown where it was eradicated.
- The status is Active: the entries are from 2015. No source says growing in the area has ended.
The name
The title is the municipality's name with the department in brackets: there is another municipality of La Vega in Cundinamarca.
Extent and border
- The map border is the municipality of La Vega as drawn in OpenStreetMap (relation 1554704; DIVIPOLA code 19397), simplified, and meets the border of Southern Huila where La Vega adjoins San Agustín; about 520 km², the figure in the infobox.
- The dataset gives no vereda, so the border takes in the whole municipality.
- The point in the infobox is the centre of the border, not a field.
Sources
- Ministry of Defence, Erradicación (open dataset). Rows for Cauca with crop type marihuana, municipality La Vega: 2 rows, 1.3 ha on 8 April 2015 and 2.0 ha on 19 May 2015.
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- In June 1968 the police found a farm planted with marijuana in Bolívar, in Cauca (Sáenz Rovner 2007, p. 220). Bolívar is a separate municipality, outside the area.
- Marijuana eradicated elsewhere in the south of Cauca is outside the area: El Tambo (2.6 hectares, 2019), Balboa (1.4, 2013–2019), Argelia (0.6, 2017) and Mercaderes (0.5, 2014).