Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of
Latin America
Latin America or
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* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...
, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans during colonial times, and Europeans.
Examples include:
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Colombian cumbia, is a musical rhythm and traditional folk dance from
Colombia.
It has elements of three different cultures, American Indigenous, African, and Spanish, being the result of the long and intense meeting of these cultures during the
Conquest and the
Colony
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.
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Panamanian cumbia, Panamanian folk dance and musical genre, developed by enslaved people of African descent during colonial times and later syncretized with American Indigenous and European cultural elements.
Regional adaptations of Colombian cumbia
Argentina
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Argentine cumbia
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Cumbia villera, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia born in the slums
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Fantasma, a 2001 group formed by Martín Roisi and Pablo Antico
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Cumbia santafesina, a musical genre emerged in Santa Fe, Argentina
Bolivia
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Bolivian cumbia
Chile
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Chilean cumbia
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New Chilean cumbia
Costa Rica
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Costa Rican cumbia
Ecuador
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Ecuadorian cumbia
El Salvador
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Salvadoran cumbia
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Cumbia marimbera, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Guatemala
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Guatemalan cumbia
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Cumbia marimbera, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Honduras
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Honduran cumbia
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Cumbia marimbera, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Mexico
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Mexican cumbia
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Southeast cumbia
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or chunchaca, a variant of Mexican cumbia
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Northern Mexican cumbia, a variant of Mexican cumbia, developed in northeastern Mexico and part of Texas (former Mexican territory)
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Cumbia sonidera, a variant of Mexican cumbia
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Cumbia marimbera, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Nicaragua
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Nicaraguan cumbia
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Cumbia chinandegana
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Cumbia marimbera, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Panama
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Panamanian cumbia
Paraguay
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Cachaca, a fusion of cumbia sonidera, norteña, vallenato and cumbia villera
Peru
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Peruvian cumbia also known as ''chicha'' or psychedelic cumbia
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Chicha or Andean tropical music
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Amazonian cumbia or jungle cumbia, a popular subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, created in the Peruvian Amazon
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Cumbia piurana, a set of styles and sub-genres linked to cumbia that have been produced in Piura, a region on the north Peruvian coast, since the mid-1960s
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Cumbia sanjuanera, a subgenre of cumbia piurana
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Cumbia sureña, a subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, a fusion of Andean cumbia and techno
Uruguay
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Uruguayan cumbia
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Venezuela
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Venezuelan cumbia
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