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Villanueva (appellation)

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Villanueva
ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later
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Hierarchy
Growing Region Northern Colombia
Growing Area Baja Guajira
Geography
Country Colombia
Province/State La Guajira Department
Coordinates 10.62, -73.04
Landscape
Area 95 km²
Terrain The valley floor of the municipality of Villanueva, between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá; approximately the municipality below 200 m
Growing history
Conservation
Populations none documented yet

Villanueva is a cannabis appellation in the Baja Guajira growing area, covering the part of the municipality of Villanueva on the valley floor, in the department of La Guajira, Colombia.

Geography

The appellation is the municipality's land below 200 m, on the valley floor west of the Serranía del Perijá. The town of Villanueva stands above 200 m, in the Serranía del Perijá growing area, and so does the rest of the municipality. The appellation adjoins the San Juan del Cesar and Urumita appellations.

History

In their social history of the Colombian mafia, Darío Betancourt and Martha Luz García list Villanueva among the growing zones of the Baja Guajira during the bonanza marimbera of the 1970s.[1]: 54

Since 2000

Marijuana was eradicated in Villanueva in April 2013, 1.5 hectares in one entry of the Ministry of Defence's open data,[2] and in October 2024 the army destroyed more than 200 marijuana plants in rural Villanueva.[3]

Accessions

No accessions documented yet.

Recent news

No recent news items.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Betancourt, Darío; García, Martha Luz (1994). Contrabandistas, marimberos y mafiosos: historia social de la mafia colombiana (1965–1992) (in español). Bogotá: TM Editores. ISBN 958-601-481-9.
  2. ↑ Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. "Erradicación". Portal de Datos Abiertos de Colombia (dataset) (in español). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
  3. ↑ "Ejército desmantela cultivo ilícito de marihuana en La Guajira". La Prensa (in español). 15 October 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2026.