Barbacoas is a town and municipality in
Nariño Department
Nariño () is a department of Colombia named after independence leader Antonio Nariño. Its capital is Pasto. It is in the west of the country, bordering Ecuador and the Pacific Ocean.
Nariño has a diverse geography and varied climate acc ...
,
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
. The urban centre of Barbacoas is located at an altitude of and the municipality borders
Magüà Payán
Magüà Payán () is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia.
Climate
Magüà Payán has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen ''Af'') with very heavy rainfall year round.
Notable people
* Julián Quiñones (born 1997), ...
in the north, Magüà Payán,
Cumbitara,
Los Andes,
La Llanada
La Llanada is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia.
Climate
La Llanada has a warm subtropical highland climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), ...
,
Samaniego and
Ricaurte in the east, Ricaurte and
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
in the south and
Tumaco
Tumaco is a port city and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia, by the Pacific Ocean. It is located on the southwestern corner of Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, and experiences a hot tropical climate. Tumaco is inhabited main ...
and
Roberto Payán
Roberto Payán is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia. The municipal seat
A municipal seat (Spanish: ; ) is the administrative center and seat of government of a municipality or civil parish, with other villages or to ...
in the west.
[Official website Barbacoas]
History
In the times before the
Spanish conquest
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It ...
, Barbacoas was inhabited by the Barbacoa, Telembà and Iscuande tribes. Already in those ages, the town was an important source of
gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ...
for the
indigenous people
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territ ...
.
[
Modern Barbacoas was founded on April 6, 1600, by Francisco de Praga y Zuniga.][
]
Economy
Barbacoas is an important mining town in Nariño, producing gold, silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...
, platinum
Platinum is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a density, dense, malleable, ductility, ductile, highly unreactive, precious metal, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name origina ...
and coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal i ...
.[Producción de oro]
- UPME[Producción de plata]
- UPME[Producción de platino]
- UPME[Producción de carbón]
- UPME Other economical activity is agriculture, with rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ...
, avocado
The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear (''Persea americana'') is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is native to Americas, the Americas and was first domesticated in Mesoamerica more than 5,000 years ago. It was priz ...
es, plantains, sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...
and fruits as banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus '' Musa''. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing the ...
s and citrus fruits. Other fruits cultivated are ciruelo
Gustavo Cabral (born July 20, 1963), better known as Ciruelo ('plum tree'), is an Argentine fantasy artist,The book ...
, guayaba
Guava ( ), also known as the 'guava-pear', is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. The common guava ''Psidium guajava'' (lemon guava, apple guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), native ...
, papaya
The papaya (, ), papaw, () or pawpaw () is the plant species ''Carica papaya'', one of the 21 accepted species in the genus '' Carica'' of the family Caricaceae, and also the name of its fruit. It was first domesticated in Mesoamerica, within ...
, pineapple
The pineapple (''Ananas comosus'') is a Tropical vegetation, tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.
The pineapple is indigenous to South America, where it has been culti ...
s, guanábana, borojó
''Alibertia patinoi'', commonly known as , is a small (2-5m), dioecious tropical rainforest tree, one of the few edible fruit bearing species in the Rubiaceae family. Borojó, native to the world's wettest lowlands (the Chocó–Darién moist fo ...
, guayabilla, lulo
''Solanum quitoense'', known as naranjilla (, "little orange (fruit), orange") in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Panama and as lulo (, from Quechua languages, Quechua) in Colombia, is a tropical perennial plant from northwestern South America. The spec ...
, anón
Anón (''Barrio Anón'') is one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Marueño, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Quebrada Limon, Real (Ponce), Real, and San Patricio (Ponce), San Patricio, and the coastal barrios of Ca ...
, guaba
''Inga'' is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing treesElkan, Daniel. "Slash-and-burn farming has become a major threat to the world's rainforest" ''The Guardian'' 21 April 2004 and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. ''Inga''s l ...
, maracuyá, guayaba brasilera
Guava ( ), also known as the 'guava-pear', is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. The common guava ''Psidium guajava'' (lemon guava, apple guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family (biology), family (M ...
, zapallo, coconut
The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family (biology), family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, ...
, cacao and other agricultural products as arracacha
''Arracacia xanthorrhiza'' is a root vegetable that originates in the Andes, whose starchy taproot is a popular food item across South America where it is a major commercial crop.
Common names
Being a South American plant, its most common names ...
, camote, ñame
Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus '' Dioscorea'' (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).
Yams are perennial herbaceous vines native to Africa, Asia, and the Ameri ...
, achiote
''Bixa orellana'', also known as achiote, is a shrub or small tree native to Central America. ''Bixa orellana'' is grown in many countries worldwide.
The plant is best known as the source of annatto, a natural orange-red condiment (also calle ...
, chillangua, tomato
The tomato (, ), ''Solanum lycopersicum'', is a plant whose fruit is an edible Berry (botany), berry that is eaten as a vegetable. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes tobacco, potato, and chili peppers. It originate ...
es, peppers
Pepper(s) may refer to:
Food and spice
* Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plants
** Black pepper
** Long pepper
** Kampot pepper
* ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae
...
, palmito, chillarán, and oregano
Oregano (, ; ''Origanum vulgare'') is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It was native to the Mediterranean region, but widely naturalised elsewhere in the temperate climate, temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Oregano is a ...
.[
]
Strike
The town is infamous for its 2011 "crossed legs" strike, where women in the town foreswore sexual activity pending action on the promised paved road to their town.
Climate
Barbacoas has a tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southeast Florida, United States ...
(Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
''Af'') with very heavy rainfall year-round.
Gallery
File:Colombia 1866 Sc45.jpg, 1866 postage stamp postmarked in Barbacoas
Notable people from Barbacoas
* Walden Alexis Vargas, football player
* Déiber Caicedo, football player
* Mateo Cassierra
Zander Mateo Cassierra Cabezas (born 13 April 1997) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Colombia national team.
Career
Deportivo Cali
Cassierra made his debut for Depor ...
, football player
* Bréiner Castillo
Bréiner Clemente Castillo Caicedo (born May 5, 1978) is a Colombian goalkeeper currently playing for Boyacá Chicó.
Castillo played professionally for 18 seasons, making appearances for Deportivo Cali, Millonarios, Nacioanl, Deportes Tolima, ...
, football player
* Carlos Castillo, football player
* Ricardo Coral Dorado
Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic ''*rīks'' 'king, ruler' + ''*harduz'' 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname.
People Given name
* Ricardo de Araújo Pereira (born 1 ...
, film director.
* Fredy Márquinez
John Fredy Marquinez (born March 5, 1988, in Barbacoas, Colombia) is a Colombian former association football forward.
Teams
* Curicó Unido 2007
* Universidad de Concepción 2008
* Fernández Vial 2008
* Sportivo Luqueño 2009
* Estudia ...
, football player
* Rodrigo Sevillano, football player
References
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barbacoas, Narino
Municipalities of Nariño Department
Populated places established in 1600
1600 establishments in the Spanish Empire