Tunda

It is said that some of them escaped into the jungle and built their own villages where nobody could find them, and they brought their stories with them.

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.

And the way the light went green under the trees, his grandmother used to warn him.

She'd sit on the porch in the evening smoking her tobacco and she'd point at the trees with it.

Mijo, you keep playing out there after the sun goes down and La Tunda's gonna come for you.

And he would say, who's La Tunda? She's a woman who lives in the monte.