In the Departments of Cauca and Nariño in Colombia and Ecuador it is a way of calling the man mestizo. It also means mulatto. By extension man of the people, villager. Another way to call it is bag. The word is a deformation of the Quechua language term llapanga or llapango, which means barefoot, walking on clean foot. He is a type of man woman who is usually engaged in weaving, embroidery or dressmaking and handicrafts.
