Monuments et sites
Honda, Tolima, Colombia / Magdalena River, Colombia
Résumé en anglais
Honda, north of the department of Tolima in Colombia had a meaning from the conquest until the twentieth century that was beyond being another river port on the Magdalena River, to become the most important of all, with regard to the transport of people and merchandise, due to its strategic position in the interior of the country due to the abrupt topography that Colombia presented at that time. This is why the Magdalena River became the communication channel towards the interior of the country and, Honda, at the same time, it became the link or door of modernization of goods and people coming from Europe.The main objective of this article is to establish the transformation and historical development of traditional fishing in the city of Honda as an ancestral trade, connected to the specific life traditions of this place thanks to the topographic characteristics through three periods in the history, finding vestiges from the 5th century BC, located in Arrancaplumas between the upper and middle basin of the Magdalena River in the area known as El Salto de Honda for long annual seasons until the 1st century BC, likewise the inhabitants developed tools that did not present changes through this period of time which were used for activities from fishing and hunting.
Consequently, traditional fishing presents a close connection between the material understood as the instruments used and the commercialization of the product for this work, and the immaterial that is intrinsically related to fishing techniques, traditions and customs that are woven around this trade inherited.