B41 Puerto Colombia, Magdalena COLUMBIA c1850

The Magdalena River is an artery between Colombia’s Carribean coast and the interior. The Panche, Yariguí and Muisca live along different flows within the bountiful river basin where coffee, corn, plantains, manioc and cacao grow. The river allowed the Spanish to travel far inland to mountainous regions; it was along this transportation route that European conquest and colonization proliferated. Some went in search of the famed “El Dorado,” a mythic city of gold based on the ceremonial traditions of the Muisca. 

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