PAYAND tree and shrub common in the department of Cundinamarca, on the banks of the Macaw River, today Magdalena, grows there wild the payandé, herbaceous rose of the papilionaceae family, so named because its flowers are butterfly (from French PAPILLON, butterfly). It grows, however, on the Pacific coasts, from California to Colombia to Venezuela. Popularly it is known as guamúchil, a word from the Nahuatl language, cuamochitl. It has been exported to Sudan, Tanzania and other areas of Tropical Africa, Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Saint Croix. 2 . In Peru : Song of the time of slavery, which is still sung today, together with A la Molina. It reads: "I was born on the beaches of Magdalena Under the shadow of a clown as my mother was black slave I also branded it"3. City in Tolima, Colombia. Payandé is a sanctuary place of the most varied and special species of tropical birds, very extensive to list here.
