Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of July 5, 2004 Provisional Measures regarding Colombia Matter of Pueblo Indígena de Kankuamo HAVING SEEN: 1. The July 2, 2004 brief of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the “the Inter-American Commission”) where, pursuant to Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and Article 25 of the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”), it submitted to the Court a request seeking an order of provisional measures to Colombia (hereinafter “the State” or “Colombia”), to protect the lives and the physical and cultural identity of the members of the Kankuamo indigenous people (hereinafter ”the Kankuamo indigenous people”) and their special relationship with their ancestral territory, in connection with a petition filed with the Commission by the Corporación Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restrepo” and the Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia (ONIC) (hereinafter “the petitioners”). 2. The Commission based its arguments on the following allegations of fact: a) the Cogí, Arhuacos, Arsarios and Kankuamo indigenous peoples live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the Caribbean region of Colombia; their territory spans portions of the departments of Magdalena, La Guajira and Cesar; b) the Kankuamo indigenous people live on the southeastern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and number approximately six thousand; c) the Kankuamo indigenous people, who once were considered extinct, have undergone a process of cultural rebuilding and of recovering their linguistic, religious and social roots; d) Colombia legally recognized the territory of the Kankuamo in 2003, through resolution No. 012 of April 10, 2003, issued by the former Colombian Agrarian Reform Institute (INCORA); that resolution created the Kankuamo Indigenous Reserve, consisting of 40,000 hectares and composed of twelve communities: Atánquez, Chemesquemena, Guatapurí, Las Flores, Pontón, Mojado, Ramalito, Rancho de la Goya, Los Háticos, La Mina, Murillo and Rioseco;