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Colombia has the second largest number of heliconia species worldwide. Most of them are endemic species The Baudó Mountains in the Colombian pacific coast have many endemic plants. Colombia has the largest number of endemic species (species that are not found naturally anywhere else) worldwide. About 10% of the species in the world live in ...
Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. Coca is known worldwide for its psychoactive alkaloid , cocaine . Different early- Holocene peoples in different areas of South America independently transformed Erythroxylum gracilipes plants into quotidian stimulant and medicinal crops ...
Colombia is one of seventeen megadiverse countries in the world. [7] The country in northwestern South America contains 311 types of coastal and continental ecosystems. [1] As of the beginning of 2021, a total of between 63,000 and 71,000 species are registered in the country, [8] [5] with 8803 endemic species, representing near the 14% of the total registered species. [6]
According to the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), there are 102 Indigenous groups in Colombia. [29] The ethnic groups with the greatest number of members are the Wayuu (380,460), Zenú, (307,091), Nasa (243,176) and Pastos (163,873). These peoples account for 58.1% of Colombia's Indigenous population. [30]
The categorisation scheme follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, in which Colombia is as politically defined except for Malpelo Island, which is treated separately and included in Central America
They farm maize, beans, potatoes, and peas, and use a number of different entheogens, including ayahuasca (yagé), Brugmansia species, Iochroma fuchsioides and Desfontainia in their rituals. Kamëntšá shamans are noted for the number and variety of Brugmansia cultivars which they have propagated in their gardens of entheogenic plants, and ...
Members of the Indigenous Wayuu community, Zoyla Velasquez, left, and her family, visit the graves of their ancestors near a wind farm on the outskirts of Cabo de la Vela, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 7 ...
The national flower of Colombia is the orchid Cattleya trianae, [1] which was named after the Colombian naturalist José Jerónimo Triana. The orchid was selected by botanist Emilio Robledo, in representation of the Colombian Academy of History to determine the most representative flowering plant of Colombia.