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Palenquero (also palenque) is a Spanish-based creole language spoken in Colombia. Palenquero is the only Spanish-based creole in Latin America. The ethnic group which speaks this Creole consists only of 3000 people as of 2007. Palenquero is spoken in Colombia in the village of San Basilio de Palenque which is southeast of Cartagena and in some neighborhoods of Barranquilla.