Our next stop is the Pacific coast: A place where the jungle meet the ocean.  This region is the second least populated of Colombia and most of the population is black.  This dates from the times when Colombia was a colony of Spain: In those times the Spanish didn’t have any economic interest in the pacific and, on top of that, they considered the low lands unhealthy.  Because of this, African people that could escape slavery and could find their way into the pacific were able to live in peace and unmolested.  This can be seen in their music which has the purest African influence of all Colombian music.