Caracolí is not an invention. It is a tree.
Anacardium excelsum — a giant of the tropical forest, cousin of the cashew and the mango, known along these rivers as caracolí. It grows tall and patient, its crown breaking the canopy, its timber once shaped into canoes and beams that outlived the hands that cut them.
We named the place after it because a name should belong to the land before it belongs to us. The tree was here first. It will be here last.
When you walk the trails, look up. The biggest crown you can see is probably the one that named us.