Guanguara

The Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada de Santa

Marta (Colombia) call their coca hayo) a word that

comes from the Tairona language. They distinguish

three ((species" of coca) each of which belongs to

one of the tribes of the region. The Kamkuama

tribe) which has now either disappeared or

become extinct) cultivated a type of coca that had

long leaves. The Kogi plant a variety with small

leaves) and the Ika a type with tiny leaves (cf.

Erythroxylum novogranatense). It is said that the

ancestors) i.e.) the Tairona) planted or harvested a

tree named guangwira or guangwila in the

paramos (high marshes) that had cocalike leaves

with similar effects (Reichel-Dolmatoff 1985)

1:87*; Uscategui M. 1959) 281 f.*). Unfortunately,

the botanical identification of this tree is unknown.

It may simply have been another wild species of

the genus Erythroxylum.