The promises of the Podcast  

HOW WE GOT TO PIANGÜITA BEACH

 It all started at the Buenaventura dock where we boarded a boat to Piangüita Beach thanks to our friends from the National Navy and Sandra Garcés from Fundaproductividad, who again put us in contact with Siber Cambido, community leader and logistic producer on the third day of expedition. Thank you all!

Siber, who welcomed us on the beach, had everything ready for us: characters, production base, food and hydration, in short, better cared for impossible. He was not only that perfect host in the territory, but someone who believed in Appellation of Origin.

This is how Piangüita Beach received us

Siber Cambindo is part of the Community Council of Black Communities in Bazán Bocana and is a forerunner of caring for the environment, its beaches, the mangrove ecosystem and responsible tourism. He is also, connoisseur of the traditions and guardian of them, like Margarita Hurtado, our star.

Siber Cambindo, Margarita Hurtado and Cesar Sálazar preparing sound

PIANGUA AND MANGROVE ECOSYSTEM

Margarita Hurtado, cultural leader, mother head of the household, pianguera, teacher of the Despertar del Folklore group, poet and singer; She gave us her time by letting us know the traditional trade undervalued by many and admired by those who know her. Pianguamos with her in the mangrove swamp.

Walking towards the mangrove ecosystem

While Margarita told us myths, legends and collected piangua, we all listened, took notes and did different tasks. We made three recordings behind the scenes, shot some other material and did the 360º.

We recommend the tour of Piangüita Beach and the 360º Mangrove Ecosystem. Enjoy it!

OUR HOSTS

MARGARITA HURTADO

Piangüera 

Pacific Multiactive, Entrepreneurial and Active Women’s Association

Celphone: +57 320 4307484

location: Playa Piangüita, Buenaventura

After our magical moment in the mangrove enjoying the company of Margarita, it was time for the famous Fish Sancocho (traditional fish soup) prepared by Francisca Renteria, better known as Doña Pachita, she told us about her love for cooking and traditional trades. She is recognized for being one of the first inhabitants of Playa Piangüita and she explained how over the years the beach has changed. Pachita is a cajambreña woman who partakes, cooks and hunts in the jungle. Listen to the story on the podcast.

Interviewing Francisca Renteria, the culinary artist of this great Fish Sancocho

FRANCISCA RENTERÍA 

Traditional Cook

Celphone: +57 320 7445286

Ubication: Playa Piangüita, Buenaventura

Francisca, who encouraged us to investigate the famous‘Mal de Ojo’ (Evil eye) if you want to know more about what it is about, listen to the podcast and learn where to go if you suffer from it.

Being born and dying in the territory are events that for the Afro and Indigenous communities have a very strong spiritual connotation that is manifested socially. That is why this episode has focused on the cousin, brother or friends farewell … Enjoy the podcast of those songs. People that sing to life and death!

Remembering each step through the Colombian Pacific, we share that first meeting with Hugo Candelario, in Cali.

LINKS TO KNOW MORE OF NIDIA GONGORA AND CANALÓN DE TIMBIQUI

(Articles in Spanish)

CANALÓN DE TIMBIQUÍ ES NOMINADO AL LATIN GRAMMY POR MEJOR ÁLBUM FOLCLÓRICO: 
LINKS TO KNOW MORE OF NIDIA GONGORA AND TIMBIQUI CANAL

‘DE MAR Y RÍO’: EL ÁLBUM DE CANALÓN DE TIMBIQUÍ QUE TODO COLOMBIANO DEBERÍA CONOCER 
‘DE MAR Y RÍO’: CANALÓN TIMBIQUÍ`S ALBUM THAT EVERY COLOMBIAN SHOULD KNOW

‘DE MAR Y RÍO’, DE CANALÓN DE TIMBIQUÍ: UN EMBRUJO DE CELEBRACIÓN AFROPACÍFICA 
«DE MAR Y RIO» OF CANELÓN DE TINBIQUÍ: A SPELL OF AFRO-PACIFIC CELEBRATION

Nidia is not only the leading voice of Canalón de Timbiquí, but is also the ‘Queena’ and the heart ofPacifican Power, Collective, which brings together the best exponents of the Pacific. Musicians that we admire a lot and that every time they go on stage in Cali I’m there. They are lovely!

I recommend this song that every time it plays, Nidia Gongora knows that I love it:

 For all our LATIN AMERICAN friends who listen to us and who surely every time they listen to this song their skin bristles, I leave you this song from Calle 13 – Latinoamérica, winner of the Latin Grammy Awards in 2011 as song of the year.

‘’Un pueblo sin piernas pero que camina” (People without legs but that walks) that is the Pacific, Colombia and Latin America.

SOUND JOURNEY

The most important Afro festival in Latin America.  Festival Petronio Álvarez

 The celebration that we have not missed for 4 years and that since 1996 was installed in Cali as the most important party of Afro Culture in Latin America. The wonderful Pacific Music Festival or better known as «Petronio», dedicated to extolling the culture and folklore of the Colombian Pacific that is lived and felt in Cali. Every August and September La Sucursal del Cielo (Heavens branch office) is taken.

2020 / Living the Petronio from home

The people in Petronio

A street is dressed in Pacific. That is the unmissable ARRULLO EN EL BARRIO in Córdoba city, the official afterparty where we all sing and dance in community.

Recommended links (Article in spanish ):

RADIONICA- ARRULLO DEL BARRIO

CALI CREATIVA- ARRULLO EN EL BARRIO

FACEBOOK OFICIAL DE ARRULLO EN EL BARRIO

We recommend the documentary seriesENCUENTRO DE ALABAO,, made by the Cajita del niño Dios Foundation in Timbiquí, Cauca. Process that is led by our friendNidia Gongora, a teacher of the Canalón School.

VALLE DEL CAUCA OUR GUEST DEPARTMENT

VALLE DEL CAUCA we have identified it as the AIR element, this is its symbol within the Appellation of Origin: Colombian Pacific, listen to it in Gustavo’s voice in the podcast.

FUN FACT

Farewell Rituals in the Pacific

Listen to us on the podcast and learn about those rituals. In your cultures, how do you say goodbye to the dead? Are they alike, different? send us messages.

For now I share a very interesting ebook with symbols and meanings ..

Here you can explore the gastronomic route, tourism and lodging.

HOW TO KNOW THE GASTRONOMIC ROUTE

1. Click the play button in the middle of the map.
2. Use the arrow buttons (<o>) to open and close the control panel. In the panel you can activate, deactivate the routes and choose points of the route.
3. Choose GASTRONOMIC ROUTE and click on the marked spots to find photos and information that we collect for you.

I recomend you PERSONAJES PACÍFICO whith MARGARITA HURTADO

Infinite thanks for reading and listening, I hope you continue to carry LA MOCHILA DESGUALANGA’ with us, see you in the next chapter!