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Despue de la LluviaBook: Pa'lante - A Journey through Colombia
Bojaya, Choco, Colombia.
A small girl after a tropical rainfall in Bojaya, in the rainy province of Choco.
In 2002, a rainfall of tears accompanied a tragical incident: 119 people died in a battle between the FARC guerillas and the AUC paramilitary forces,
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Embera manBook: Pa'lante - A Journey through Colombia
Rio Nuqui, Choco, Colombia -
DesplazadosBook: Pa'lante - A Journey through Colombia
Quibdo, Choco, Colombia.
This woman and her granddaughter found shelter in a shell building in Quibdo, in the tropical West, where they had to sleep on the concrete floor.
Still they were lucky to have a place at all. With over 3 million displaced people, Colombia has one of the largest internally displaced people in the world. -
CampesinosBook: Pa'lante - A Journey through Colombia
Boyaca, Colombia.
Two campesinos on a their lunch break. In the background the onion fields of the Lake Tota. -
Colombian TipleBook: Pa'lante - A Journey through Colombia
Bogota, Colombia.
Tiple player in Santa Ines. The tiple is a 12 string guitar grouped in four tripled courses. -
Semana SantaBook: Pa'lante - A Journey through Colombia
Salamina, Caldas, Colombia.
Good Friday procession in Salamina. -
Palmas de CeraBook: Pa'lante - A Journey through Colombia.
Salento, Colombia.
The Palma de cera del quindio is the talles monocot in the world and is the national tree of Colombia.
The palm trees can grow up to 80 m and grows over the hills of the western side of the andean mountains between 2.500 and 2.800 meters.
