Draft:Siloé
Siloé is a neighborhood of Commune 20, between the hills of Cristo Rey and Bataclán, in Cali, Colombia.
History
[edit]The hills of Siloé were home to peasant settlers as early as 1904. In the area they discovered mineral coal and since 1910 landowners leased them in usufruct sold it to mining engineers, entrepreneurs or others who wanted to extract the coal. They were handing over land for mine workers and their families to settle. The sugar industry, the industrial sector and the Pacific Railroad needed to operate the coal miners extracted on the slopes of Cali.[1]
The grounds of the neighborhoods were located outside Cali were referred to as ejidal land. These lands were simple grasslands and forests (therefore of common use), the neighborhood was free to expand human settlements. The population of Cali grew without a need for the State to respond to the calls for housing. Dozens of homeless families organized and occupied the ejidal lands. Finally, it was legalized as a recognized neighborhood of the city. The inhabitants managed to get Siloé to have some public services as a result of the urban and demographic expansion recorded by Cali, after the VI Pan American Games of 1971.[2]
Now
[edit]Many workers from the services and construction sectors live in Siloé.[1] The neighborhood has a poverty rate of 23%, one of the highest in the country. Only 53.4% of houses in Siloé have aqueduct coverage, 49.9% sewerage, 70.9% electricity, and home natural gas barely reaches 54.5%.[2] The COVID-19 pandemic increased unemployment and poverty, and Siloé was considered the emblematic actor of protest and resistance during the 2021 Colombian Protests.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ruiz López, Apolinar. Espacio y poblamiento en la ladera suroccidental de Cali: Sector Siloé, décadas 1910-2010 [Space and population on the southwestern slope of Cali: Sector Siloé, decades 1910-2010] (in Spanish). Universidad del Valle, Cali.
- ^ a b "Siloé: así es el histórico drama social que vive la ladera". El País (in Spanish). 06-20-2021. Retrieved 11-16-2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help) - ^ Villamil Muñoz, Jessica (May 12th 2021). "Siloé, el barrio "en resistencia" más violento durante protestas en Colombia". swissinfo (in Spanish). Retrieved November 16th 2024.
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All information was retrieved and translated from the Spanish Wikipedia page about Siloé.