The term Afro-Colombians is used to refer to black people living in Colombia, descendants of those who were abducted from their native Africa and imported as slaves by Spanish colonizers. Won freedom in 1851 after the abolition of slavery in Colombia. Since his arrival has contributed greatly to the culture.

By the middle of last century the black population was mostly on both coasts: in the departments of the Pacific Chocó, Valle, Cauca and Nariño and the Atlantic coast in Bolívar, Atlántico, Magdalena. In the past half century, a large sector of the black population has settled in major cities.