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Caribbean Region
Spanish spoken in Atlantic cost is different from other parts of the country, they speak way faster than everybody else, the dialect is used in the region comprised by the departments of La Guajira, Magdalena, Atlántico, Sucre, Córdoba, Cesar, three-fourths northern of the department of Bolívar and small extensions of the north of the department of Norte de Santander, in addition to the portions of Chocó and Antioquia mentioned above.
Spanish has 2 options to treat people, one is Formal - Usted, and the informal is Tu (AKA, Tuteo) In the Caribbean Coast, tuteo is mainly used. Formal treatment is left only to address older people or authorities, bosses or teachers, to put distance between people or to express severity.
The following expressions are very popular in the Caribbean region, they are so much fun!
- No Joda: Expression of admiration for a fact, a phenomenon, for a woman, for anything.
- Erda: It means poop, it is used as an expression of admiration but also anger.
- Cule Problema: Used to express a situation that generates a great inconvenience.
- Chicharron: It indicates a Huge problem.
- Mondá: Used to talk about men genitalia, also anger, admiration, it depends on the context used.
Pacific Region
This region is located to the west of the country, limiting to the north with Panama, at the northeast with the Caribbean region, at the east with the Western mountain range that separates it from the Andean region, at the south with Ecuador and to the west with the Pacific Ocean, from where it takes its name. It is part of the biogeographic Chocó and this region is divided into two large areas marked by Cape Corrientes. The main cities are Buenaventura, Tumaco and Quibdó. Tumaco-La Tolita culture was developed there.
It is a region with immense ecological, hydrographic, mining and forest wealth in which natural national parks are located. It is also considered one of the regions of greatest biodiversity and rainfall on the planet with rainfall of the order of 4,000 mm / year according to the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Colombia. It is also the main land of the Afro-Colombian culture and of numerous Indo-American tribes that were called “chocoes” by the Spaniards at the time of the Conquest, although the term includes linguistic families of different origin. This Coast is highly strategic because it connects Colombia with international traffic, it is still being developed.
The citizens of this region are very cheerful and outgoing, they are enterprising and creative people to be able to achieve and change great things for their region, many of them within their daily lives we find that the use of some words to refer to some everyday events and are:
- Arrechón: Although many may think that it is something sexual, it is related to a drink with presumed ‘aphrodisiac’ powers and also with joy and excitement at the time of a dance.
- Birimbí: Traditional drink of the Pacific coast, made from corn, panela, cinnamon, orange leaves and cloves.
- Reburú: Expression of total joy, can be expressed with shouting, jumping, dancing and fast movements
- Bogas: Handle the oars of a boat, the fishermen of this region are characterized by having a lot of strength in their arms due to this activity
- Levantapolvo: A person who dances well, or who is good at getting a lover.
- Cambambero: This is how you know a person who is cheerful, friendly and very easily to interact with others. Example: “You are very much Cambambero”.
Andean Region
The Andean region of Colombia is the part of the Andes mountain range that expands throughout the Colombian territory. This Colombian region is located just southwest of the Venezuelan Andes, and extends south until it reaches Ecuador.
The mountain range covers a large amount of coffee territory and passes through more than 10 different departments. It has a unique fauna and flora of the region and relatively similar to that of the entire Andean mountain range in general.
This region has a lot of temperature changes according to the height of its surface, which in turn gives it a lot of mountainous formations. The fauna and flora vary according to the altitude in which each area of the region is located.
It is one of the most populated areas of Colombia - with 70% of its population - and its versatility of landscapes makes it one of the most popular for tourism. Its approximately 282,540 square kilometers occupy 30% of the Colombian territory and is divided into three mountain ranges: Western, Central and Eastern.
It is the area with more civilization that contains Colombia as well, is responsible for providing technology and policy to all other regions in Colombia. The same in them there are many known words or taken in another way. The same are the most common:
- Berriadero: Dry, sterile and usually faldudo land: “that berriadero gives nothing but pity.”
- Risen Caranga: A person of humble condition who, by improving his economic situation, gives himself a lot of insults: “who sees her tongued at the club, and to think that it is nothing but a resurrected caranga.”
- Chumbimba: Give chumbimba. Shoot with a firearm: “do not put problems there that give them chumbimba.”
- Cosiampirar: Perform an action whose name is not remembered: “I am going to cosiampirarle a button that this dress is missing”. Var. Cosiacar
- Cutupeto: Feeling restless, fear: “It makes me cutupeto go through there.”
