RELIGON 

Studies suggest that about 70% of Colombians are Roman Catholic. However, Colombians are notable for their acceptance of other creeds and faith such as, Christianity ( about 75% of the population), Islam (about 1% of the population) Judaism (about 2% of the population), and other religions (about 5% of the population).

MUSICE Modern Colombian music is a mixture of African, native Indigenous, and European (Spanish) influences, as well as more modern American and Caribbean music forms, such as Trinidadian, Cuban, and Jamaican. The national music of Colombia is said to be vallenato and cumbia.

THESE are some of the most lardest

·       The Tunda (La Tunda) is a myth of the Pacific Region of Colombia, and particularly popular in theAfro-Colombian community, about a vampire-like doppelganger monster woman

·       The Patasola or "one foot" is one of many myths in Latin American folklore about woman monsters from the jungle.

·       The Moan is a forest and river creature that protects the forests, steals women and disturbs fishing and hunting activities.

·       The Llorona or the Weeping Woman is the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children that she drowned. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death.

·       The Madremonte (Mother of the forest) or Marimonda is usually regarded as protective of nature and the forest animals and unforgiving when humans enter their domains to alter or destroy them. She can be identified with Mother Nature and Mistress of the Animals.

·       The Hombre Caiman, or Alligatorman, is a legendary creature that possesses both Alligator and human features. This South American folk tale is particularly popular in Plato, Magdalena, especially in rural and less populated areas. He is said to have been a fisherman converted by the spirit of theMagdalena river into an alligator, that returns every year on St. Sebastian´s day to hunt human victims, much like the werewolf.

1883 drawing of Boto. The pink dolphin is feared by the indigenous people as a mischievous spirit of water

·       The Mohana (La Mojana) Mother of water or Mami Wata is a shapeshiftingwater spirit who usually appear in human form to seduce and take away the humans. In the Amazon basin this features are applied to the Pink dolphinsrepresenting the spirit of Amazon river. The discography of Colombian folkloric singer Totó la Momposina includes works about the Mohana.

·       The evil chicken ("pollo maligno") is an evil spirit of the forest in the form of a bird that haunts the hunters, attracting them to the deepest forest in order to devour them.

·       The Candileja is said to be the spirit of a vicious old woman, who was in charge of her grandchildren but neglected to teach then any moral principles, so they grew up as murderers and thieves. In the afterlife she was damned to travel around the world surrounded by flames. It is related to the Will-o'-the-wispphenomenon.

·       The dark mule or Mula Retinta is an evil spirit that appears before arrieros as a pack animal, causing violent winds and storms that make people fall off the precipices at the side of the pathways.

·       The Viruñas or Mandingas (the Evil One), is considered a representation of Satan, and appears as a handsome man who steals the souls of the people.

Crime and curpution

According to Transparency for Colombia, the country ranks 70 in the Perception of Corruption index. However the problem of corruption is a high priority to only 2.9% of the people interviewed versus violence which is a high priority to 31.49% and unemployment which is a high priority to 20.7%.^[4]