Colombian Arhuaco Indigenous

The Arhuaco are an indigenous people of Colombia. They are Chibchan-speaking people and descendants of the Tairona culture, concentrated in northern Colombia in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The Arhuacos are profoundly spiritual and follow their own unique philosophy that tends to globalize their surroundings. They believe in a creator or "father" named Kakü Serankua, who engendered the first gods and material living things, other "fathers" like the sun and the snowy peaks and other "mothers" like the earth and the moon. They consider the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to be the heart of the world, and believe that the well-being of the rest of the world depends on it.

Arhuaco

The Arhuacos are profoundly spiritual and follow their own unique philosophy that tends to globalize their surroundings. They believe in a creator or "father" named Kakü Serankua, who engendered the first gods and material living things, other "fathers" like the sun and the snowy peaks and other "mothers" like the earth and the moon. They consider the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to be the heart of the world, and believe that the well-being of the rest of the world depends on it.

Tala y quema

Slash and burn or slash and burn, is an agricultural technique that consists of deforesting a piece of land where the trees, shrubs and herbs that inhabit it are burned, with the aim of turning it into a crop field. The remaining ashes are scattered and used as fertilizer.

It is a traditional technique that comes from ancient times. During the Middle Ages, the peasantry prepared the land by slash and burn for temporary cultivation.

Slash and burn was common in mountain areas where traditionally there were no fields.

Tala Y quema o roza y quema, es una técnica agrícola que consiste en la deforestación de un pedazo de tierra donde se queman los árboles, arbustos y hierbas que la habitan, con el objetivo de convertirlo en un campo de cultivo. Las cenizas restantes se esparcen y se utilizan como fertilizante.

Se trata de una técnica tradicional que viene de antiguo. Durante la Edad Media, el campesinado preparaba la tierra mediante tala y quema para su cultivo temporal.

La tala y quema era común en las zonas de montaña donde tradicionalmente no había campos.