Our next stop is the Caribbean Coast: A place of blue ocean and white sands.  This is the region where the greatest amount of mixing of the three races occurred; it is a fertile region where important native Colombian tribes lived, were African people were brought to work on the fields and a region that was of great economic importance for the Spanish, since all the gold and silver brought from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia was sailed to Europe using its ports. This region is also home of the most international of Colombian rhythms: The Cumbia and the Vallenato.