Colombia's Collectively Owned Coastland
René Ammann
2. September 2019
Two-thirds of Buenaventura, Colombia's 400,000 residents are considered poor. (Photo: manuel3000/Flickr)
Share of land on Colombia's Pacific coast – 14.8 million acres, larger than Croatia – that has been communally owned since 1993 to benefit the region’s mainly Afro-Colombian residents: 60%