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 Traditions and customs

There is at least one festivity a day in Colombia, and you can easily participate in it, whether in processions, Easter Week, or the Barranquilla carnival. Every occasion is good for singing, getting drunk on sharing a bottle of brandy, and dancing to the sound of salsa, merengue, or cumbia (in the mountains), and many other musical rhythms haunting daily life.

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Colombia Lonely Planet.
books
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (Nobel Prize for Literature) and Annie Morvan.
A Hundred Years of Solitude, Love and other Demons, Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.


The Rage in My Heart by Ingrid Betancourt.
movies Our Lady of the Assassins by Barbet Shroeder.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Y. Billon and M. Martinez-Cavard. Portrait of the writer of a Hundred Years of Solitude.
music Each region has its own rhythms: merecumbé, porro, mapalé, currulao, cumbia , vallenato, bambuco (region of the Colombian Andes), passillo, vals, bunde, guabina, sanjuanero, joropo, galeron. The musical instruments used are drums (African influence), the harp, the "cuatro" (small four-stringed guitar) of European origin, and the accordion (with artists such as Antonio Rivas and Robert Santiago). 
Titles and albums :
El Mondo and El Boa by Sonora Santenera
A Mover la Colita by Sonara Dinamita
Juana la cubana by Fito Olivares
Sal y Agua by Los Vallenatos
Como te Voy a Olvidar by Los Angeles Azules
Caballito de Palo by Aniceto Molina
Pacanto, by Toto La Monposina.