Enslaved Africans arrived in the Colombian Pacific during the colonial period, originating from a vast chain of African regions stretching from Senegambia to Angola. According to current research on the subject, it is practically impossible to give precise figures with regard to their specific points of origin within Africa. It is nevertheless possible to determine African areas, regions and scenarios in general, with similar tendencies found in the Pacific, Colombian Caribbean Atlantic and inner Andean areas. According to an ethno-linguistic and onomatopoeic study carried out by de Ganda, the following constitute the areas and groups from which enslaved people arrived in various areas of the Colombian Pacific in the eighteenth century: Senegambia (Mandinga, Casaca, Bran, Bambara, Guagui, Canga, Tambo, Taui andmani); Grain Coast (Setre/Kru); Gold Coast (Mina, Fandi, Nango, Ati, Aguamu, Coto, Ocara, Asante/Ashanti); Bight of Benin (Arará, Chala, Popo, Lucumí, Bomba, Ayobi, Betre); Bight of Biafra (Carabalí, Viví, Cuco); Central Africa (Congo, Luango, Matamba, Mondongo, Pango, Bamba, Manyoma, Bato) (De Friedemann, 1993, pp. 52-53). It would be pertinent to add references to ethno-linguistic groups such as the Malinke, Akan, Gá-Adangme, Ewe, Yoruba, Fon, Ijo, Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, Ngola and Kongo, among others.  
Colmenares sets out the same African regions of origin by analysing deeds of sale and purchase for slaves sold in the port of Cartagena de Indias between 1705 and 1748 and tallying groups of enslaved miners in Chocó in 1759 (Colmenares, 1979, pp. 47-48). I found similar African regions of origin by examining records of sales of slaves registered in the notarial archives for the regional urban area of Bogotá during the first half of the eighteenth century (Díaz Díaz, 2001, pp. 79-81).