La Colonia
The main settlement of Bajo Calima, on the road corridor.
How to get there
La Colonia is reached by the Bajo Calima road corridor, the dirt track that branches off the Alejandro Cabal Pombo highway —the road between Buenaventura and Cali— at the spot known as El Gallinero, at kilometre 16.
Part of the collective territory
La Colonia is one of the nine communities that make up the Community Council of the Black community of the lower Calima River basin, established on 15 September 1998 under Law 70 of 1993 and Decree 1745 of 1995.
The collective territory was titled by Resolution 002244 of 4 December 2002, with 66,724 hectares within an ancestral territory of close to 130,000. Self-government is exercised through the General Assembly and the Governing Board, and in each community the village committees are the direct channel for participation.