The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed that the United States has delivered 274 archaeological pieces of Colombian heritage under the bilateral agreements signed.

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"Among the repatriated goods are cups, pots, alcarrazas, spindle whorls, seals, necklaces, molds, ocarinas, vessels, anthropomorphic figures, rollers, pendants, among others, made of ceramics, rocks and shells," the Ministry explained in a statement.

Most of the goods came from the voluntary return of a U.S. citizen who contacted the Colombian Embassy in Washington in October 2019.

"The collection of 233 pieces belonged to this citizen who had inherited them from her husband who, living in Cali in the 1970s, acquired different samples of Colombia's archaeological wealth," the Colombian government has recounted.

The pieces have been transported in the same plane used by the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, to attend the annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The pieces, according to the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH), belong to the archaeological regions of Tumaco-La Tolita (today southern Nariño and northern Ecuador), Quimbaya (middle Cauca), Tayrona (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), Calima (Valle del Cauca), Sinú (Caribbean plains) and Nariño (Nariño).

Bogota is already working on the return to Colombia of another 737 pieces of archaeological heritage that are in the custody of some diplomatic missions to be studied.

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