Recorrido por Capurgana y Sapzurro - Golfo De Urabá - Colombia - TvAgro por Juan Gonzalo Angel

Twitter @juangangel Capurganá is a town in the municipality of Acandí, Chocó Department, Colombia, on the Gulf of Urabá, near the Colombian-Panamanian border. It is a tourist town isolated by road from the interior of the country. This northwestern region of Colombia was inhabited by the Cuna indigenous people, for whom it was the "land of chili peppers," or Capurganá in their language. The Cuna populated it until the early 20th century, when they were displaced by Black and mixed-race settlers arriving from the city of Cartagena. The indigenous people migrated to the San Blas archipelago (Kuna Yala region) in neighboring Panama. There, the Panamanian government had reached an agreement with the native population creating a semi-autonomous region where the natives would exercise their own authority. Capurganá remained hidden from the map until the early 1970s, when, thanks to the efforts of Narcisa Navas, a small landing strip was finally built. Navas and pilot Jorge Mario Uribe brought the first tourists to Capurganá in a small Cessna plane. Today, the Capurganá airport bears her name. Initially, families from Antioquia arrived to build small summer homes. The Mora, Uribe, Arango, and Isaza families, along with Samuel Isaacs, a relative of the Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs, arrived. José María Palacio and his son Héctor organized the first hotel in 1975, consisting of small wooden cabins with thatched roofs made of iraca palm (Carludovica palmata). After Las Cabañas (now the renovated Tacarcuna Lodge), other hotels such as the Calypso and Las Mañanitas followed. By 1990, its hotel infrastructure had grown to more than 20 hotels, inns, and hostels. The small town gradually became a favorite destination for Colombia's emerging eco-tourism and adventure tourism. Source: https://es.wikipedia.org Juan Gonzalo Angel Restrepo www.tvagro.tv