Colombia and the 2003 Convention

Latest news and events

UNESCO launches the platform ‘Transmedia Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development in the Andean countries’

27 January 2022

In April 2020, the Living Heritage Entity launched an online survey to grasp the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. The “Living Heritage ›››

Intangible heritage during lockdown

22 April 2020

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage selected two projects for inclusion on the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

13 December 2019

Periodic reporting

On the implementation of the Convention

15/12/2014 (submitted on time)
15/12/2020 (submitted)
15/12/2026

On Urgent Safeguarding List elements

Traditional knowledge and techniques associated with Pasto Varnish mopa-mopa of Putumayo and Nariño

2020

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Colombian-Venezuelan llano work songs

2017

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Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region

2015

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Key references

Ratification of the Convention on

19 March 2008

Read the Convention in: [name_language]

Committee Member

Membership and participation

Contact

Listing of ICH and Register

Holy Week processions in Popayán (2009, RL)

12 elements inscribed

2020: Traditional knowledge and techniques associated with Pasto Varnish mopa-mopa of Putumayo and Nariño (USL)
2019: Safeguarding strategy of traditional crafts for peace building (Art18)
2017: Colombian-Venezuelan llano work songs (USL)
2015: Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region (USL)
2015: Marimba music, traditional chants and dances from the Colombia South Pacific region and Esmeraldas Province of Ecuador (RL)
2012: Festival of Saint Francis of Assisi, Quibdó (RL)
2011: Traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí (RL)
2010: Wayuu normative system, applied by the Pütchipü’üi (palabrero) (RL)
2009: Carnaval de Negros y Blancos (RL)
2009: Holy Week processions in Popayán (RL)
2008: Carnival of Barranquilla (RL)
2008: Cultural space of Palenque de San Basilio (RL)

On-going nomination(s)

2022: Ancestral system of knowledge of the four indigenous people, Arhuaco, Kankuamo, Kogui and Wiwa of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (RL)

Backlog nomination(s)

2022: Living pictures of Galeras, Sucre (RL)

Project

Between the Amazon and the Andes: safeguarding and transmission of the Traditional knowledge and techniques associated with Pasto Varnish mopa-mopa of the Putumayo and Nariño departments of Colombia

7 March 2022 – 7 March 2022

Amount (US$) 98,925 ›››

T-ICH4SD: transmedia intangible cultural heritage for sustainable development in Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador

1 June 2021 – 1 December 2021

Amount (US$) 10,000 ›››

My Heritage, My Region: strategy for capacity-building in social management of the intangible cultural heritage in two departments of the Colombian Orinoco region

25 March 2019 – 8 June 2020

Amount (US$) 99,950 ›››

Intangible cultural heritage as a basis for resilience, reconciliation and construction of peace environments in Colombia's post-agreements

18 July 2018 – 1 June 2020

Amount (US$) 99,400 ›››

Safeguarding of the traditional knowledge for the protection of sacred natural sites in the territory of the Jaguars of Yuruparí, Vaupés Province, Colombia

1 June 2017 – 28 February 2018

Amount (US$) 25,000 ›››

Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Carnival of Barranquilla

1 January 2005 – 1 October 2008

Amount (US$) 150,008 ›››

Public awareness campaign in Colombia on the importance of safeguarding the intangible heritage (pilot project)

1 July 2003 – 1 December 2005

Amount (US$) 136,860 ›››

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Interviews

Ms Sonia SARMIENTO-GUTIERREZ / Mr Juan Luis ISAZA LONDONO<br />
Permanent Delegate of Colombia to UNESCO / Director of the Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia

Ms Sonia SARMIENTO-GUTIERREZ / Mr Juan Luis ISAZA LONDONO
Permanent Delegate of Colombia to UNESCO / Director of the Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia

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Accredited NGOs located in this country

Asociación Teje Teje - COLOMBIA

2005

Teje Teje - COLOMBIA ›››

Fundación Erigaie - COLOMBIA

1991

Erigaie Foundation - COLOMBIA ›››

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Category 2 center(s)

Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Latin America

Peru

Legislation

Decree 02941 of 2009

2009

Decree No. 2941 of August 6, 2009 (whereby Law 397 of 1997 as amended by Law 1185 of 2008, as for the Cultural Heritage of the Nation of immaterial nature are partially regulated)

2009

Ley 1185 de 2008

2008

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