Young barefoot girl digging the goldbearing mud to find gold or platine in the open mines of Choco, Colombia.
Young barefoot girl digging the goldbearing mud to find gold or platine in the open mines of Choco, Colombia. According to the Colombian statistics 70 percent of the whole Choco population is either active in the gold and platine mining or closely connected to it. Chocó is a no man's land. The large inaccessible rainforest jungle area in the western lowlands of Colombia is mainly inhabited by Afro Colombian population, descendents of African slaves. High presence of malaria, guerilla drug traffic routes, tropical deseases and only an irregular river transport makes this region virtually lost. Gold that is found in the jungle rivers of Chocó is the only hope for many although they never find what they dream about.
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Location: Tado, Colombia
Photo credit: © Jan Sochor / Alamy / Afripics
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