Nueva Esperanza
A returnee community, rebuilt by its families after forced displacement.
How to get there
Nueva Esperanza is reached by river, travelling along the Calima. The river is the road: people, food and produce from the gardens travel along it to Buenaventura, and supplies and public services come back the same way.
Part of the collective territory
Nueva Esperanza 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.