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Quindío treats the department of Quindío, in central Colombia, as a cannabis growing area within the Cordillera Central (Colombia) growing region: the landrace population near Calarcá from which two accessions were collected, and cannabis grown there under licence. The department as an administrative unit is treated at Quindío Department, and Colombia's law on cannabis at Colombia.
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Why Quindío is a growing area
- The area rests on the two Punto Rojo accessions, ZOM-COL-QUIN-0120240001 and …0002, collected as seed in January 2024 from a landrace population grown near Calarcá (harvest 2023). They place growing below the department, in one municipality, which forms the Calarcá appellation.
- Licensed growing for medicinal use is also reported: a crop of about 300 plants in the vereda Corozal, Córdoba (El Tiempo, 10 March 2019), and eight production permits and about 130 small producers in the department (Radio Nacional de Colombia, 7 December 2023, quoting the departmental agriculture secretariat).
- No source reports cannabis grown outside the licensed system in a named place of Quindío.
Growing status
The status is Active: the accessions are from the 2023 harvest, and licensed growing is reported in 2019 and 2023.
Extent and border
- The map border is the department of Quindío as drawn in OpenStreetMap (relation 1331230), simplified; about 1,900 km². The accessions name only "near Calarcá" and the licensed crops lie in Córdoba and elsewhere in the department, so the area is drawn on the department, and the Calarcá municipality is the appellation inside it.
- The point in the infobox is the centre of the border, not a field.
Other reports
- The Ministry of Defence's eradication dataset has no rows of marijuana eradicated in Quindío.
- Seizures on the roads and in towns of Quindío are not used as evidence of growing. The police and army say several of them came from Cauca, among them 1,587 kg found in a rural house between Montenegro and Quimbaya in February 2022. An army bulletin of March 2026 says that a load of more than 120 kg stopped at a checkpoint on the road from Calarcá to Armenia allegedly came from Génova, in Quindío; it describes no crop.
- A chapter in Ni calladas ni sumisas (Editorial Uniagustiniana) lists Quindío among the departments with marijuana crops in the 1960s, citing Sáenz Rovner. Quindío was then part of Caldas, and Sáenz Rovner's account of the 1961 report names Caldas, not Quindío; the list gives no place or year and is not used.
- A medicinal-cannabis dispensary opened in December 2023 in the vereda Cuzco, Pueblo Tapao, Armenia. The reports describe its sales and do not say what is grown there; it is not used.