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La
Costeña y El Cachaco
(Opposites Attract)
Colombia
The telenovela tells the
humorous tale of two people from wildly different geographical regions and
backgrounds, who must bridge a cultural chasm in order to find love.
Costeño or costeña is the term for a person from the Colombian
coast. Perhaps because of the climate and proximity to the Caribbean,
costeños are commonly seen as unbuttoned and carefree. Cachaco is the
nickname given to those from Bogota, which sits in a cold valley near the
Andes. Inhabitants of the Colombian capital are thought to be rather
restrained and uptight.
Sofia Granados is a costeña from Barranquilla who arrives in the port of
Santa Marta to launch a tourist-oriented restaurant. Antonio Andrade is an
upper-class engineer who leaves his native Bogota for a job in the hot and
steamy port, where he suffers a mammoth culture shock.
Their first encounter occurs when the introverted and ultra-boring Antonio,
a classical music lover, loses his temper with his next-door neighbor, who
insists on playing - rather loudly - that "awful" music called vallenato. Of
course, the neighbor is the bubbly Sofia, herself an entire carnaval.
Equally of course, their initial dislike will evolve into love, accompanied
by the standard complications: In this case, both Antonio and Sofia are
engaged to be married to other people.
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