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Chilapo or chilapa today has varied meanings, especially with respect to identifying much of the savannah population of the departments of Cordoba, Sucre and Bolivar in Colombia. The word chilapo says of the miscegenation that occurred in these savannah lands, mainly between Afro population and indigenous population that gave rise to a phenotype different from the most common miscegenation between Caucasians and Afros or between Caucasians and Indians, bringing it closer to what the Spaniards in colony called zambo. Given the semi-feudal socio-economic structure reigning in this area by the mid-twentieth century (large haciendas in which its workers [Afros, indigenous and mainly "chilapos"] had no property at all) when the banana agro-industry began in the Antioquian urabá, many of these people and their family groups migrated to this region, contributing customs and genetics different from the then dominant paisa-hispanic and afro-chocoana. For this reason, despite its clear ethno-geographical origin, in the region of Urabá many esmpezarion to generalize the use of the word chilapo stopped anyone or that came from the coastal savannah.
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