The afrocolombian territory-region

history and social formation

Abstract

The Colombian Pacific is a region historically occupied by afro communities that were formed since the sixteenth century and maintained their traditional ways of life through the practice of agriculture, fishing and extractivism. Throughout the twentieth century, the region was the object of some State intervention processes in an attempt to integrate it, through actions permeated by the discourse of development. Many of these actions generated socio-environmental and territorial conflicts with the black and indigenous communities established there. Faced with these processes, there was resistance from the communities that began to claim their territories, culminating in the promulgation of Law 70 of 1993, which titled the vacant lots for use and possession of the Afrocolombians Community Councils. Thus, we propose to analyze this process of formation of the Afrocolombian territory-region and discuss how it was in dispute, culminating with the creation of Law 70 in 1993, which generated the collective ownership of the territory.