---
title: "Magdalenas for the Cauca (Consuelo Valencia)"
summary: "Magdalenas for the Cauca (Consuelo Valencia). Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Photo credits: Rodrigo Grajales Click on the image to enlarge This raft, made from wooden reeds native to the Trujillo region in Valle del Cauca, floats along the Cauca River."
description: "Photo credits: Rodrigo Grajales Click on the image to enlarge This raft, made from wooden reeds native to the Trujillo region in Valle del Cauca, floats along the Cauca River."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/3-territorio/magdalenas-por-el-cauca/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-11T15:35:38-05:00"
---

Publicado: 10 of June of 2021

# Magdalenas for the Cauca (Consuelo Valencia)

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[Gallery 3. Territory](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/3-territorio/)

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**Photo credits: Rodrigo Grajales**  
Click on the image to enlarge

#### Yorlady Ruiz y Gabriel Posada

2010  
327 rafts with portraits

This raft, made from wooden reeds native to the Trujillo region in Valle del Cauca, floats along the Cauca River. It carries the large silhouette of a woman bearing the portraits of her two missing sons. The work pays tribute to the mothers searching for their loved ones cast into Colombia’s river currents, denouncing the transformation of these rivers into cemeteries and their desecration as a result of armed conflict. It brings to light the tension between this reality and the enforcement of Articles 63 and 79 of the Constitution, which establish the State’s duty to protect environmental diversity and integrity, living ecosystems, and national parks as resources of the Nation.

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#### See

[About the Artwork](https://desaparicionforzada.com/magdalenas-por-el-cauca/)

[About the Artist](https://rutasdelconflicto.com/rios-vida-muerte/especial/mil-cuerpos.html)

[Sentencia 032-2019 Protección medioambiente](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2019/C-032-19.htm)

[Derechos de los recursos naturales](https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.co/bitstream/handle/001/2921/MKA-spa-2020-El_reconocimiento_de_los_recursos_naturales_como_sujetos_de_derechos_Analisis_critico_sobre_los_fundamentos?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

[Return to room 3. Territory](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/3-territorio/)

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