Department of Cauca, Colombia

Cauca

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Photographer: Rafael Tobar
In my trips to Cauca's mountains and the coastal regions, I found scenes worthy to be perpetuated in photography. Here are some that will show you the matchless typical landscapes and scenes of life of the people at these beautiful colombian regions. I took these pictures in black and white. I illuminated them, trying to remember the fantastic colorful and amazing reflections of light that my eyes caught when exploring those places.

The exuberance of these places is amazing.
Human been seems small before
the spectacle of Nature.
Everything in these places declares
life in all its modalities.
Everything wants to live, to grow, to be beautiful. And it achieves that.

Spectacular canyons
and rustic places, at these Cauca's mountains.
This photography was taken
way to the small village of Dinde, in the Western Mountain range of Andes.

India, from Guambia's region,
proudly shines the
characteristic customs of her race. All of her
breathes folklore.
Usually the Indians are reserved
and they avoid the cameras.
This amiable lady,
with her son on the back, was an exception.
She gave me one of the most
beautiful native stamps.
Exemplary laborious ethnic group,
it does not know veleidades
nor laziness, always they are doing
something of benefit.
This lady is prancing wool thread,
with the thistle in her hands.

Guambian mother. Silvia, Cauca, Colombia

Calm morning at Silvia, Cauca. The mist that slept
next to the mountain must go away, because the King Sun has arrived, opening curtains at his step. The wind of the mountain range, that pierces the bones, suggests us to go to take a little hot coffee, with pandebono. (Bread made with corn flour and cheese, delicious!)

El Tambo, Cauca. Constructed on the same edge of the mountain.
Whom was the idea to build a town on the spine of the mountain? It is a single and long street going upwards, and it finishes at " La Cuchilla del Tambo", (the Blade of the Inn), historical place because there was rid one of the most decisive battles of independence.

Matting of the Cuerval.
Sometimes river of life,
other times barren inhospitable,
in a cycle repeated endless,
caused by the tide
of the Pacific Ocean

More photos and texts, in development

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