The Colombian culture

The Colombian culture
A great diversity of cultures inhabited our territory before the arrival of the Spaniards, some so advanced and sophisticated ones as those that produced San Agustín's statuary in the Huila, the tombs of Tierradentro in the Cauca, or the Lost City (Buritaca 2000) in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta.

With the Conquest and the Colony, the European targets of Spain arrived who in turn slaves of África brought. It is for it that Colombia is a country multiétnico and pluricultural, where each region possesses own features that distinguish it of its neighbors.

This way, one can speak of an Andean culture, in which feels with more force the European ancestro; of a culture Caribbean, amalgam of indigenous and African inheritances; of a Peaceful culture, of African root and of the culture of the Orinoquía and Amazonía, essentially indigenous.

The great cultural diversity inhabited the national territory before the arrival of the Spaniards.
This complex miscegenation not only finds its expression in the traditions, crafts and Colombian gastronomy, but also in its arts from the architecture, the painting and the sculpture until the literature, the cinema and the picture, going by the music, the dance and the theater.

Colombia is the home of more than 87 indigenous towns that use 64 native languages belonging to 22 linguistic families; also, of several millions of afrocolombianos; of more than 30 million mestizos; of 12 thousand gypsy and of immigrants' nuclei in different regions. In San Andrés' archipelago and Providence, the population for the most part raizal speaks English

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