Word: cauca
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...with the advent of coffee in the second half of the 19th Century, the rich decomposed lava of the mountainsides suddenly sprouted wealth. The enormous Antioquian families (20 children were not unusual) began spilling along the Cauca River and the valleys of the Cordillera Central. The department of Caldas, colonized a few decades ago, produces more coffee than any other department today. The Antioquian peasant transplanted his democratic land system wherever he went: Caldas coffee farms are even smaller than those of southern Antioquia; the owners' families themselves pick the crop. Like the U.S., Colombia thus had a homesteading...
Colombian Chicago. Even today, Antioquia and Caldas send several thousand emigrants a year into the Valle del Cauca. The Vallenses themselves prefer the valleys and leave the slopes to the immigrants from the north. To the southeast, Antioquian peasants are settling the virgin mountainsides of Tolima. In the north, they have overflowed into Choco and Bolivar, and control much of Bolivar's cattle industry. Of the 3,000,000 Colombians of Antioquian descent, only 1,300,000 live in Antioquia...