Quibdó

The one that they tell kids at night is La Tunda.

About four hours by panga up the Atrato River from Quibidó, the capital of Choco, there was a small village.

Maybe 30 houses, all built on wooden stilts so they wouldn't fall into the river when it flooded.

A little church, a school with one room, and a soccer field that turned into mud every afternoon.

Um, and we spent two-thirds of our time in Bogotá, both at sort of beginning and, and end, and then we split off into five different regions.

So Bogotá, uh, Quibdó, uh, La Guajira, Casanare, and then Catatumbo, which is the region that I visited.

Um, um, you were there prior to the earthquake, I think.

No, post.

So post.

Yeah.

So then people who went to Quibdó were there and saw the destruction.

Yeah, when, when news of the earthquake broke, um, there was a lot of plan B, plan C, plan D, and likewise, uh, things had kicked off in Catatumbo a few days after that, which then also nes- potentially nes- necessitated a, a plan B.