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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

mapalé
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It is the name of a typical dance of the Atlantic Coast of Colombia. He is of African roots. It is a very frenetic dance, which usually imitates the movements generated by a fish out of water. Common name given in Colombia to a siluriform fish of the family Ariidae. It is also called goat or goat mapalé. Its scientific name is Cathorops mapale.

  




Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz

The mapalé is a dance and musical rhythm of the Colombia's Caribbean region.

  



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