Guaquitum : el territorio tiene memoria: comunidad afrodescendiente del Barrio Los Robles Soacha

Abstract

The cultural practices of a community are those that keep the history of the territories alive; the loss of these as a consequence of displacements due to violence can lead to disinterest and ignorance of their ancestors. This monograph seeks to recover through collective memory, and social cartography, those practices that people from the Los Robles - Soacha neighborhood used to have, when they lived in Guapi, Quibdó and Tumaco, identifying those that they have brought with them and still practice. Although different visits were made to the place, only people from Guapi and Quibdó participated; mostly men over 30 years old and the specification of the practices that are maintained, such as the consumption of alcohol-based beverages and food, as well as hairstyles and the San Pachito festival, which, although they are traditions, were obtained, have lost historical weight and have become customary.