This illegal mining mainly took place in the provinces of Choco, Antioquia and Nariño, said the UNODC. Some 40% of the land used for illegal mining was located in Choco, one of Colombia’s poorest ...

Choco continued to be Colombia’s poorest province with a poverty rate of 68.4% in 2019. Almost 39% of the people in the largely Afrocolombian province were living in extreme poverty. Peripheral ...