El Tiple is a village located in the
municipality
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of
Candelaria, department of
Valle del Cauca in
Colombia.
It is located in the southwestern part of the municipality of Candelaria. To the north, it borders the village of San Joaquín; on the south, with the municipality of
Puerto Tejada (Cauca), on the east, with the villages of Buchitolo and Cabuyal; and for the west, with the municipality of
Cali, whose natural limit is the Cauca River. Its relief is completely flat, on the fertile valley of the
Cauca river
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.
90% of its population belongs to the
Afro-descendant
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ethnic community. Many people from this village work for the
sugarcane mills of
Valle del Cauca.
This ethnic community has been strongly impacted by the environmental liabilities generated by the sugarcane agroindustry.
History of Tiple
El Tiple, formerly called "Amor Chiquito" (Little Love) was colonized in the late 1800s. The first inhabitants were located in what is known today as Tiple Abajo. Great families coming from
Jamundí
Jamundí is a town and municipality in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Jamundí is located south of Cali (the capital of the department) in the west riverside of the Cauca River The average temperature is 23° Celsius.
Histo ...
, families that until today are conserved as the Saldañas and Los Valencias. Very organized clans, conservative and enclosed in their customs. This made them the only family groups that have kept up to the present day, not only their lands, but also their beliefs, their customs and, above all, their family unity.
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Valle del Cauca Department