The Andes mountains separate the people. Some live in the Caribbean lowlands in cities like Barranquilla and Cartagena some …show more content…
Civil war (1899-1902) claimed 100,000 lives, and La Violencia (1948-1957) cost 300,000 more. Starting in the 1980s, as the government worked with the U.S. to stop the drug trade. Trafficking, and a bunch of cocaine problems flooded the area and U.S came into help,
Farmers raise world-renowned coffee on the Andean slopes. Colombia sells much of the world's valuables and a lot amounts of gold, silver, and platinum and has the highest coal production in the world most from the Guajira Peninsula. However, oil development is bad from guerrilla groups, and large parts of Colombia are not in government control.
Colombian coffee is considered as some of the highest quality coffee in the world. Colombia has grown arabica beans and it's cool geography makes it great for producing a delicious, high quality brew for a nice cup of coffee in the morning. Colombia’s excellent growing conditions has boomed the marketing industry by the National Federation of Coffee Growers , which has worked since the late 1950’s to bring Colombia’s coffee to bring in national attention to boom the marketing. Colombia has usually been second in global coffee production only to Brazil. Over 500,000 farms, most of them small landholdings of 5 hectares are along zonas cafeteras, some of the most biologically different landscapes in the