Yarumal is a municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. Yarumal was founded in 1787 as San Luis de Gongora. Municipal status was granted in 1821. The current name of Yarumal comes from a local plant belonging to the Moraceae family, known in botanical Latin as Cecropia peltata L. The municipality (3 parishes and 20 villages) has an area of 724 km², 35,315 inhabitants, and its average elevation is 2,265 m above sea level.
An unusually large proportion of the inhabitants suffer from early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which is caused by a genetic mutation. The genetic mutation is thought to have come from a Spanish conquistador. Approximately 5,000 residents will develop early-onset Alzheimer's. Half of the affected residents were shown to have developed symptoms by their early 40s.
I am an earthworm following
There is a nighthawk watching
me crawling
La la la la -
it's a lonely night
I'll take the airwaves home tonight
crawl with me in to the hole
Where everyone can hide
We're in the wormhole
Seeking to be safe again
Without a single brave soul
Leaking out tonight
After the fires there's a falling rain
Washing us free of the daily pain
Off the hook and down the drain
And out to the other side
To where the soil is rich and muddy in the riverbed
Feed on the urgent promise