Prensa
Work In Progress Meanwhile, join us and explore the history of Minca and the testimonies of the community in the follow links: Museo Minca Living Memory Archive
Noticias
Work In Progress Meanwhile, join us and explore the history of Minca and the testimonies of the community in the follow links: Museo Minca Living Memory Archive
Post Conflicto y Turismo
Timeline 2003 Santa Fe de Ralito Agreement between the government and AUC 2005 Justice and Peace Law 2007 Paramilitary demobilization 2010 Paramilitary demobilization in the Minca area 2010 Dialogues between government and FARC begin 2016 Signing of the peace agreement with the FARC Today Implementation and Attempt to dialogue with current armed groups –ELN, paramilitaries, […]
Conflicto Armado
Armed Conflict As a direct victim of the conflict, going through all these experiences at such a young age and without knowledge of the subject, I could only say at that moment that there were “bad men” who wanted to harm us and end our innocence and peace. This created in me the questions that […]
Café
Coffee Although coffee has its origin in Africa and spread slowly through Arabia, India, and Europe before reaching the Americas. The first coffee bushes on the continent were brought to the Americans between 1714 and 1720 by the Dutch and the French. Coffee became very fashionable in Europe, but without a climate that lends itself […]
Indigenas
Indigenous Groups The Sierra Nevada is home to four indigenous groups: the Kogui, the Wiwa, the Aruaco and the Kankuamo. They are the remnants of the Tairona, a sophisticated civilization dating back to 200 BCE. The Tairona had extensive sustainable farming and architecture that included crop rotation, vertical ecology, and terraced draining systems designed to […]
Turismo
Work In Progress Meanwhile, join us and explore the history of Minca and the testimonies of the community in the follow links: Museo Minca Living Memory Archive
Proyectos
Projects Living Memory Archive Investigation and Archive / Investigación y Archivo This project was the first step in formalizing memorial research in the region. The project consisted of five phases in the process of investigation and curation: 1. Improvement and expansion of bibliographic sources through more interviews, professional recordings, and cross-reference with other […]
Memoria Viva
Living Memory Archive Testimonies Raul Santos Peñaranda His family came to the area in 1952 fleeing the violence that was taking place in the interior of the country. “There were only around five or six families, nothing else.” They came to work for one of the oldest coffee farms in the country, ‘Cincinnati’ along with […]
Museo Minca
Museo Minca Museo Minca is NOT a traditional museum. It is a community storytelling experience that will change the way you see this town forever… Minca has become an international tourist destination, but the waterfalls, birds and coffee farms that are sold to visitors are a very small part of Minca’s identity. Her history—a […]