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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: The Coffee Culture of Colombia's Riviera |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Gary Predmore |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,666 Words, 9,794 Characters |
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Over the last hundred years, coffee has become Colombia's preeminent export crop. "Mountain-grown Colombian coffee," television commercials claim, is the "richest" coffee in the world. Consequently, throughout the Colombian Riviera, the climatic belt between the Caribbean coast and the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, there has developed a coffee-growing culture that permeates the region's numerous small villages, towns, and outlying plantations and haciendas. This coffee culture reflects a unique blend of Indian and Spanish life-styles adapted to the demands of modern technology and agricultural production.
Indeed, such cultural flexibility and evolution seem the hallmark of the ever-changing mix of culture and commercial endeavor that has historically been fou...
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... tension of traditional and modern forces that underlie the coffee culture of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The simple mountain life that persists in this region is at the heart of the modern Colombian economy and the nation's hopes for the future. He Riviera remains as it has been for centuries, literally the gateway and lifeline of Colombia's emergence into the international community.
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