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E-Task 4.2 Sub-Task B.3 Minorities in Colombia

Colombia has a diverse population descended from indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans. It recognizes two official minority groups - Afro-Colombians and indigenous peoples. Indigenous groups make up a large portion of the population in Amazonas, La Guajira, and other departments, while Afro-Colombians populations are concentrated along coastal and river regions. While minorities have constitutional rights, they continue to face significant economic and social discrimination.

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E-Task 4.2 Sub-Task B.3 Minorities in Colombia

Colombia has a diverse population descended from indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans. It recognizes two official minority groups - Afro-Colombians and indigenous peoples. Indigenous groups make up a large portion of the population in Amazonas, La Guajira, and other departments, while Afro-Colombians populations are concentrated along coastal and river regions. While minorities have constitutional rights, they continue to face significant economic and social discrimination.

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e-Task 4.

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Sub-task B.3

Minorities in Colombia

Race and ethnicity in Colombia descends mainly from three racial groups Amerindians, Europeans,


and Africans that have mingled throughout the last 500 years of the country's history.

Colombia is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the World, with 85 different ethnic
groups.

Colombia officially acknowledges two ethnic minority groups: the Afro-Colombian and indigenous
populations.

 The big concentration of the indigenous population (22 to 61 percent) is located in the
departments of Amazonas, La Guajira, Guainía, Vaupés and Vichada. The secondary
concentrations of 6 to 21 percent are located in the departments of Sucre,  Córdoba,  Chocó, 
Cauca,  Nariño and Putumayo.

The Black, Zambo and Mulatto populations have largely remained in the lowland areas on
the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, its islands, and along the Cauca and Magdalena Rivers. Chocó is
the department with the largest concentration of African-descendants in Colombia.

Since independence both Amerindians and blacks have continued to reside on the outskirts of
national life. As a group, however, blacks have become more integrated into the national society
and have left a greater mark on it.

Afro-Colombians and indigenous are entitled to all constitutional rights and protections, but they
continue to face significant economic and social discrimination.

According to the Indigenous National Organization of Colombia (ONIC) there are 102 indigenous
peoples in Colombia and only 82 of them are recognized by the Colombian government. One of
the main problems the Colombian indigenous communities are currently facing is the lack of
recognition of their right to be consulted. Poverty is another central aspect in order to understand
the contemporary situation of the indigenes of Colombia, which has been measured making use of
the Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN), considering people poor who have insufficiencies in living,
services and education.

Colombia is a multiethnic and multicultural country and its own Political Constitution protects the
ethnic and cultural diversity by recognizing the right to equality and establishing the obligation to
promote the conditions for such equality to be real and effective in terms of the situation of
discriminated or marginalized groups.

Despite this normative recognition, ethnic groups are targets of violence derived from the armed
conflict, individually and collectively, which endangers their autonomy and their territorial and
cultural rights.

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