Agriculture is the main economic activity of this indigenous town, even, the women play an important role in the terrain preparation and seedtime of cultures. Each family counts with two or more parcels, than locate in different thermal floors from the Sierra Nevada. Before the Kogi did rotation of cultures, but the present conflict armed in the Sierra Nevada prevents them. 1. Way (GUAJIRA) – Location: They are based in a reserve of about 1.080.336 hectares, to the north of the Guajira.

Also they have migrated to the municipalities of Maicao and Manaure. – Population: 144,003 natives. – Language: Arawak. – Culture: The children, when beginning to menstruar, are put under a period of imprisonment, time during which they are shaved and well-educated in typical workings of the woman, like weaving and cooking. After a time, one determines that they are apt to marry. Ways practices the polygamy, because for them it is prestige sign. All the marriages consolidate by means of an economic or political agreement between two families. The parents of the fianc2e pay the dowry in cattle, horses or jewels for the future wife.

2. Arhuaco (To stop) – Location: The arhuacos or ikas is Guatapur, in Eastern the western and South slope of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. – Population: 14,300 natives. – Language: of the linguistic family Chibcha. – Culture: The main economic activity of the Arhuaco town is the cattle ranch, survive of the cows and the ewes. They practice agriculture minimumly, being the coffee the first product. Its familiar nucleus is based on the matrilocal, that is to say, that the man when dumb marrying to the house of the wife, until later securing its own house.