Why So Few People Live On Colombia's West Coast

Get 15% off Huel today with code GEOFF at www.huel.com/geoff Read about this topic here: https://geographicgeoff.substack.com/ 🌳 Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 🗺️ Map store: https://geoffxmuirway.com/ Colombia is an incredible country, geographically. But despite being home to over 53 million people, the second most populous country in South America, almost no one lives on the country's Pacific coast. And this is weird because most countries in the Americas have gone through great effort to settle and build population centers on their respective west coasts. So what's going on in Colombia and why have they still not developed the vast majority of their Pacific coast? In this episode we'll cover the varied and intimidating physical geography of Colombia, how, why and where the Spanish decided to colonize and settle, and why, even into 2024, Colombia's west coast is still vastly underpopulated compared to its Andean and Caribbean regions. -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. Video animations and editing by Dakota Piteo. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices