Colombian Music Map

Colombian Music Map is an interactive single-page application that showcases Colombia’s six musical regions – Caribbean, Pacific, Andean, Orinoquía, Amazonía, and Insular – on a relief map with embedded, playable music examples. It runs entirely in the browser (no server or installation required), built with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, using D3.js for the map.

▶️ Open app 📂 GitHub repository

App contents

• Regional organization: all six of Colombia’s musical/physiographic regions – Caribbean, Pacific, Andean, Orinoquía, Amazonía, and Insular – laid out on a topographic relief map, with department boundaries and neighbouring countries for geographic context.
• Clickable markers: recorded music examples plotted at their geographic origin, each showing title, artist, year, genre, and classification.
• Visual indicators: different dot shapes distinguish Traditional, Fusion, and Non-traditional music.
• Built-in player: tracks stream directly on the map via embedded YouTube videos.

Contribute

The song collection can be expanded by anyone: tracks live in a single data/tracks.csv file, editable in any spreadsheet application, with no other files to modify. See the GitHub repository for details on the data format and how to contribute.