In Colombia, it is the name of a town in the Department of Arauca, located in the municipality of Puerto Rondón. Name of a Hato in the Department of Arauca. In our country catanga is a basket or net used for fishing. Nasa. In some South American countries the dung beetle is called catanga. Squat. The word thus used is of Quechua origin and means excrement ( akay ) and push ( tankay ). With K, Katanga is the name of a Province in Southern Congo. It was the name of an unrecognized state, where Patrick Lumumba was killed. It is currently a Province of Congo.
It was a derogatory way of calling the slave in the 19th century, which was later left to his descendants of African origin. Originally it was the Castilianization of the Quechua name for the hairy beetle, a black shell that pushed or loaded clay balls or excrement to make its nest (and it seemed that it was doing heavy work, like slaves). It is composed of the voices aka ( "poop") tankay ( "push" ) . It is also the name given to an old, ramshackle cargo cart; definition that today can be extended to any type of vehicle in bad conditions.