Our handicrafts are appreciated throughout the world: the backpack Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, hat vueltiao the plains of Cordoba, San Jacinto hammock in Bolivar, lacquer objects of Pasto in Narino, ceramics Ráquira Boyaca, are examples of popular creations compete in beauty with the works of art called worship.
Colombian music has enormous variety. The Andean region, of Hispanic heritage, is based on the tones of the guitar, tiple, and mandolin, but south of the country is enriched with flutes and drums of the oboes.
In the Caribbean coast has been imposed for decades on the vallenato ancestral rhythms like cumbia and bullerengue and Santa Marta, Barranquilla and Cartagena champeta gaining strength, and reggaeton.
The Afro of the Pacific region, with its currulao and hymns, bases its strength on drums and marimba, with a melancholy tone of indigenous origin. Indigenous groups in the Amazon have flutes and drums yurupari maguarés, both sacred.
