Ráquira is a small village northeast of Bogota, famed for the local pottery. Women "make traditional cooking pots and water jugs in the same style and with the same hand-working techniques they've used since before the time of Columbus" while men are "working full-time in shops established in the last 50 years--mass-produce planters and other ware, using molds and potter's wheels in a style of primarily Spanish origin." See The Ceramics of Ráquira, Colombia for more detail.

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