Tumaco, Nariño. Colombia. August 8 - 9, 2022
The following guide provides important information about the city, hotel and venue, weather and general recommendations during the AFROINNOVA II meeting.
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The pearl of the Pacific is synonymous with diversity, resistance and preservation of the ancestral African and indigenous culture. Tumaco is a municipality that looks forward and is a musical, audiovisual and cultural power for Colombia and the world.
ABOUT TUMACO Tumaco is the main producer of coconut at a departmental and national level. Also recognized for its cocoa, it is a municipality with a significant proportion of rural community whose main activities are related to fishing, ecotourism and mangrove economies. It is also a municipality with great community leadership that from the social, cultural and environmental have served as a refuge and platform for children and youth who inhabit both the urban and rural villages. The town is built on the island of the same name, and is believed to have been founded before 1794 by the Tumac Indians, who lived on the banks of the Mira River; it was initially named San Andrés de Tumaco. The municipal area is 3,778 km² and comprises two areas, one where the municipal seat is located, bordered to the north by the Pacific Ocean and to the south by the Republic of Ecuador. The topography of the terrain is flat to slightly undulating and corresponds to the Pacific plain, characterized by lowlands covered by mangrove forests. Along the coast there are some notable landforms, including Cape Manglares, the Tumaco inlet, the islands of Gallo, La Barra and El Morro. The average annual rainfall is 3,050 mm, is associated with the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and is distributed in a monomodal regime that extends throughout the year, with May being the rainiest month. Among its attractions, Tumaco also called "The Pearl of the Pacific", has the Morro beach, where you can find El Arco and El Quesillo, rock formations that stand out from the landscape of the territory. .
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80.1% of the population is Afro-Colombian and together with the indigenous population (4.6%) make up the vast majority in this municipality with a census of 221,469 inhabitants in 2019
Tumaco is served by the Florida Airport, it will take you about 15 minutes by car to get to your hotel. Estimated cost of the cab ride from the airport to the hotel: $20,000 COP ($5 USD). When you arrive at the airport, one of our staff will be waiting for you to take you to the Hotel.
For your convenience, we have chosen the following hotel: Hotel: Los Corales Address: El morro, Tumaco Nariño - 528509 Telephone: (+57) 317 436 89 49 Amenities: Wi-Fi, meals, local calls. Not included: Minibar, alcoholic beverages, international calls, among others.
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The month of August in Tumaco will be warm, with a minimum temperature of 24°C and a maximum temperature of 31°C. This is the perfect weather for exploring the municipality, but rainy days may occur this month. Be sure to pack an umbrella. Dress code: Casual attire according to the occasion and the warm area. NOTE: Do not forget to wear a hat, sunscreen and mosquito repellent during the tours. According to the activities, we recommend wearing comfortable shoes.
"To Tumaco, the Gleaming, was left a hallucinated nose, a lighthouse that misses the night and a bridge of sleeping whales, so that no one would forget it(...)"
ISLARIO, Alfredo Vanín.
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Tumac Foundation Francisco Tenorio
He is a cultural leadership founded nearly 25 years ago in the Pantano de Vargas neighborhood of Tumaco. Master Francisco Tenorio and teacher Laylis Quiñones have been working for more than 50 years for the artistic education of the youth and children of their municipality and other neighboring rural areas. To this day, the Tumac Foundation's extended family has trained more than five generations of Tumaqueños in dance and traditional music. Today more than a hundred children and young people are trained in traditional music and dance, music production, design and manufacture of artistic costumes, construction of traditional musical instruments, student academic reinforcement and life projects. Currently with a branch in Medellin, the group Plu con Pla and various participations in the Petronio Alvarez Festival are a symbol of resistance and insistence on culture as an environment of care and a platform for the next generations of the South Pacific. /FundacionEscuelaTumac
@FundacionTumac
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Plu con Pla Harold Tenorio
Fundación Tumac Francisco Tenorio
Plu Con Pla fuses traditional rhythms from the Pacific coast of Colombia, such as Currulao and Bunde, with reggae, hip-hop and subtle electronic beats. Plu Con Pla is an eleven-member band that brings together two distinct musical concepts, creating something we've never heard before. At the front of the stage, a full Currulao section sets the mood with a powerful vocal combo, traditional instruments from the Pacific coast of Colombia (bombo, cununo, marimba), and elements of West African origin (Ngoni, Djembe). They are joined by the strength of a full reggae ensemble of drums, guitar, bass and keyboards. The group takes its name from a traditional Tumaco dish. "Plu" means Plumuda, a local fish, and "Pla" is short for "Platano", the plantain you will have on your plate almost every time you have lunch in Colombia. Anthropologist from the University of "Los Andes", Faculty of Social Sciences in 2006. He grew up with music and dance, in a world of rhythms and traditional dances of the South Pacific in the Tumac Foundation. He worked at the National Museum of Colombia where he conducted research on the religious festivities of the Pacific Coast "San Pacho". He arrived in Paris in 2010, where he obtained his Professional Master in Sociology, sociological studies: consulting, surveys, evaluation at the Sorbonne University Paris IV. Master with specialization in Music, at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences "EHESS" in 2013, focusing her research on ethnic education in the Colombian Pacific coast. Currently, responsible for the Tumaco Music School, founder and director of Plu con Pla.
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Tumaco House of Memory Yohana Quiñones
Yohana is a social worker and has a master's degree in cultural and audiovisual management and production. She arrived in Tumaco in 2005, coming from Cali and in a situation of forced displacement. Since that time she has always been linked to processes of promotion of Human Rights, through the social doctrine of the church and its community practice. She was co-founder of the Afro Youth Center in Tumaco and member of the Life, Justice and Peace Committee of the Diocese, where she was part of the collective - Roots of the Mangrove, with which they sought to investigate and make visible stories of victims of conflict in the municipality and their families. Thus was born the Tumaco House of Memory, which went from being a museum of stories to a space of transformation and hope, through the promotion of human rights, the construction of memory and the rescue of cultural practices of collective healing and peace building. Currently, activities are being carried out to accompany the families of victims who find in this space advice and construction of the necessary memory for other reconciliation processes. In addition, the city's educational institutions attend the Cátedra de Paz and their teachers receive training in these topics, as well as in peaceful conflict resolution. With volunteer groups, a meeting of weaving mothers and a collective of friends of the Tumaco House of Memory, Yohana and her team seek to continue bringing hope to nearly 80% of Tumaco's population that recognizes itself as a victim of the conflict.
/CasaMemoriaTumaco @CasaTumaco
@CasaMemoriaTumaco
casamemoriatumaco.org/
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Memoria Tumaco
Alfredo Vanín Writer
Poet, novelist, short story writer, professor, literary workshop leader, journalist, essayist, cultural researcher, ethnologist and editor. He studied Literature and Anthropology and in 2012 the University of Cauca awarded him an Honoris Causa degree in Literature. The work of Alfredo Vanín inserts the jungle, the ancestors, the founding elements of the .cosmovision of the black people; it outlines their vision of the world, the order of relationship with things. Master Vanín was born in the Saija River, near Timbiquí on the Pacific coast of Cauca, but was raised in Guapi and has lived for several years in Tumaco. He has traveled almost the entire Colombian Pacific and his extensive literary production today allows him to be one of the writers who has best narrated and investigated the region. He is currently a professor and university advisor and is the main tutor of the reading circle of Pacífico Master Beat, the first music production school in the Colombian Pacific.
"I emerged from the sea, a step away from the sleepless, and I was the owner of a river that ran into the arms of mother water." ORÍGENES, Alfredo Vanín. 10
ACOP - Communications Agency from the Pacific Michel Sinisterra ACOP is a communications leadership that is changing the referents, narratives and characters of the region from Tumaco. This organization is the result of the merger of two other local leadership processes: Notiparche Youth Foundation and AREDCOM (Network of Youth Communication Collectives). They have been generating actions of social impact in the community for several years through research, construction and visibility of stories of hope and resilience in their municipality, promoting recreational and educational activities on issues of peace, conflict resolution, environmental care, social inclusion, among others. This work has been developed in various educational institutions, neighborhoods and villages of the municipality, through communication strategies such as: cinemas, forums, workshops, creation of audiovisual and audio materials, photographic exhibition in schools and creation of digital content. Currently composed of 15 participants and serving as a framework for the formation of Zoomusic, its musical and audiovisual production service for other artistic processes and community leadership in the region.
Michel, founder of Notiparche and now part of the ACOP team, has a degree in social communication and is a technician in Social and Community Service. She is a youth leader with more than 15 years of participation in organizational experiences, project manager and promoter of collaborative networks that promote youth empowerment.
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Tumaco Atelier School Marcela Aragón Marcela is a social communicator and journalist for social development, master's degree in government as a Pacific Power scholar of Manos Visibles and co-founder of the Tumaqueña Cooperative of Culture and Progress. She has worked in projects of organizational strengthening and entrepreneurship with environmental and socio-cultural impact, highlighting among them, the Bio-Enterprise Acceleration Program (PABE), Colombian Luthiers and Vamos a la Plaza de Mercado. She has also led community and citizen participation processes in the Equilibrio Foundation and the Mutual Association for the Integral Development of Afro-Colombianism and Entrepreneurship (AMDAE). Marcela is currently the coordinator of the Tumaco Atelier School, an institution that seeks to safeguard the cultural heritage through training in traditional trades. This entity was created within the framework of the Colombian Workshop Schools Program - Tools for Peace of the Ministry of Culture, which is committed to the revitalization of traditional trades through technical training for labor skills related to trades and opportunities identified in the region. It currently offers training in technical occupational skills such as cooking, construction, cocoa and chocolate making, carpentry, table and bar, bakery and pastry making, as well as short courses to strengthen other productive skills, especially for young people and women in the region.
/Escuela-Taller-Tumaco
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escuelatallertumaco.org/
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Escuela Taller Tumaco
Bejuco Foundation Julio Sánchez Bejuco is an organization that was born in 2015 as a group of traditional music and exploration of fusions with other African rhythms until today, consolidating itself as a space for creation, ideation and research laboratory for the conservation of the traditional rhythms of the South Pacific and its fusions such as Afropacificanbeat. In the year 2021 it is constituted as a foundation, with the purpose of taking advantage of the artistic abilities in music and dance of the members of the group, to provide training spaces mainly to children, youth and adults of the commune 5 of the municipality of Tumaco; this as an alternative occupation of free time, in an area that has been characterized by suffering the scourge of violence. The organization has several lines of work, among which stand out the musical group that performs live and streaming presentations. Bejuco récords is conceived as a content producer at the service of the community of the 10 municipalities of the Pacific coast of Nariño, which today do not find favorable spaces for the musical production of their own creations. It also serves as a meeting and advisory space for other groups in the municipality of Tumaco and its villages. Julio Sanchez is an Industrial Engineer, specialist in Financial Management, bassist and trainer of Bejuco, currently works as an official of the National Tax and Customs Office (DIAN) and is a scholarship holder of the Pacific Power Fund, pursuing his master's degree in Management and Development Practice at the University of the Andes.
/BejucoMusic
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Changó Foundation Wisman Tenorio The Music Foundation of the Pacific Changó was born on November 28, 2004, in response to the need to recover, collect, preserve, strengthen and disseminate the music of the south pacific region of Nariño. The foundation is one of the groups that has achieved a worthy participation and representation not only in its locality Tumaco, but also has participated in different events of musical circulation and academic construction, such as the Petronio Alvarez Pacific Music Festival, from 2005 to date, its orality, tradition and impeccable interpretation have been awarded several times in this contest. Currently, in addition to the group, the foundation has more than 300 children and young people in training processes in the urban area of Tumaco, villages and other areas of influence. Its research process of practices, knowledge and ancestral culture is done through the Berejú Laboratory with several community councils in the area, it is also the organizer of the International Marimba Festival and other binational meetings. More recently it has incorporated a musical production process with which it hopes to serve communities and traditional artistic processes that operate in its area of influence. Its founder and director Wisman Tenorio is a musician, composer, researcher and cultural manager from Tumaqueño, a member of a family of artistic tradition, coming from the Tablón, Salado and Gualajo rivers.
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Agrupación Changó Oficial
Del mar a la Olla Karen Rosero
Del Mar a la Olla is a collective of women heads of household from villages in the municipality of Tumaco. Since 2018, they started in the company of the Verde Humano Foundation a Community Pot project in an area with greater vulnerability in Tumaco. Later they were transformed into a collective that in addition to cooking for their community seeks to share knowledge, knowledge and ancestral practices among the women who are part of it and their families. Through this collective, its members have managed to revitalize recipes with ancestral ingredients and practices of the South Pacific, and have joined tourism routes in the municipality, offering gastronomic and training activities to locals and visitors. This group of women has also found in the kitchen a propitious scenario to listen to stories and document the effects of the conflict in their communities, which is why they have participated in projects such as Recipes for Peace and Route 5. One of its managers, Karen Rosero, a grant recipient of the Pacific Power Fund, is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Business Creation. She has a Master's degree in Performing Arts from the University of Antioquia and is a cultural manager. She has worked with entities such as the Ministry of Culture and Corpovisionarios. She works as a cultural consultant with several entities in the Pacific region of Nariño and the Telembí sub-region. She is co-founder and coordinator of the Verde Humano Foundation, with which she formulates, manages and executes social intervention projects under alternative methodologies and innovative approaches with women and children from various Afro-Colombian communities. /Colectivo-Del-Mar-A-La-Olla
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La Estación de Palomino María Edilma Palomino
La Estación de Palomino restaurant, located on Avenida de la Playa in Tumaco, is one of the most important gastronomic references in the city. Its menu has a special care for the typical ingredients of the South Pacific sea and with the particular seasoning of Chillangua (wild coriander) and Chirarán (maroon basil), traditional herbs that besides serving as seasoning have their origin in the ancestral practices of the Afro-descendant community that inhabits the region, this enterprise is a symbol of innovation and protection of cultural practices in the city. María Edilma, its founder, is, like the other five women who make up her team, a stay-at-home mother. Her family always worked in the sea trades, her mother worked in a fishing boat and her uncle also made a living from artisanal fishing, so María Edilma understood her role in the preservation of traditional cuisine from generation to generation. She has always cooked, sometimes to support her family she has been selling her preparations corner by corner in Tumaco and since three years ago in her Palomino Station women see her as a reference. Like them, Maria Edilma is the breadwinner of her family, she has studied at the Tumaco Workshop School and took her seasoning to the most prestigious hotels in the city, before deciding on her own concept of restaurant in front of the sea and with service almost all day long. /Restaurante-La-Estación-De-Palomino
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DON AKY Alex Jhein
Don Aky is a brand of urban products from Tumaco. Its founder, Alex Jhein, is a young entrepreneur from Tumaco who is looking for the recently opened space (currently a showcase) to become in the medium term a cultural center to exhibit and serve as a meeting point for the different urban artistic expressions of Tumaco and the southern region. Alex is also a great illustrator, recognized graffiti artist and urban artist with an extensive work on the walls of emblematic places in the city. Don Aky is convinced that the stories about his city and its people must be told in creative and innovative ways, and for this reason he has made his talent available for more than five years.
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LA BARCA RESTAURANT With its own dock and a first class menu, it is ideal for dinners and sunset views.
CANALETE CULTURAL CENTER With traditional music, ancestral drinks and a very authentic decoration, here we will celebrate our Tumaco party.
MUSIC SCHOOL - TUMACO One of the emblems of the city, located in an area with a large influx of young people, it is a symbol of resistance through art.
VICHE TASTING Don Onésimo, representative of the fifth generation of viche producers from Soledad de Curay, 45 minutes from Tumaco, will guide us through the wisdom of this ancestral drink and its derivatives.
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Tumaco, Nariño. Colombia. Agosto 8 - 9, 2022