Talk:Department of Antioquia

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Not all people of Antioqua call themselves "paisas" only people from Medellin or near - -Elpaisa1

What I actually said was that they were the largest group (around 90% according to the Spanish Wikipedia)

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i would like info on Antioquia.

[edit] Paisas

Who knows what Paisas means? Here it means those in jail who are not maras, gang members. Can we be sure it is not an offensive term in Colombia, SqueakBox 23:01, September 7, 2005 (UTC) Paisas to people from Medellin are not offensive at all. I don't know about any other department but in Antioquia people don't really take it as an offense. People from Medellin usually call themselves paisas.

Paisa (short for "paisano"=fellow contryman), refered to culturally Antioqueño, is by no way offensive to them. See es:Paisa for an article in Spanish language wikipedia.

— Carlos Th (talk) 03:21, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

People from Antioquia and Medellin and the Colombian Coffee belt call themselves Paisas. The people from the Paisa Country, as it is sometimes called, have a distintive accent for which they are recognised and identified in Colombia. The Colombian Paisas take pride on being the pioneers of the industrialization and modern colonization of Colombia. They are quite religious and catholic. The Jewish element is an important component of the Paisa culture as many people from this region descended from Spanish conversos.--tequendamia 11:36, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

So I now see from es wikipedia. I believe better safe than sorry and I wasn't sure partly because it was inserted an anon. Paisa does mean what I eluded to above in Honduras, essentially a criminal who isn't part of a gang, and I imagine from the same word paisano, as I am adding to the Spanish wikipedia, SqueakBox 14:28, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Okay. I created the disambiguation here: Paisa (disambiguation), to show the different meanings. — Carlos Th (talk) 14:58, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Belén de Bajirá

Belén de Bajirá es un municipio antioqueño no del Chocó. Los Mapas hay que actualizarlos.--Zer0~Gravity ^{(Roger - Out)} 00:19, 24 May 2008 (UTC)