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El Pacífico is a region that is unified in habits of thought and practice and forms of cultural expression, and given these shared characteristics that exist across the Ecuador-Colombia border, I ask questions about how the border has affected each population differently. In order to do so, I address oral histories, diaspora discourses, afro-indigenous relations, nation-state borders, and ideas of binationalism. I argue that in Esmeraldas the reality of the border influences epistemic engagement with questions of history, homelands, and identity that are reproduced and rearticulated through music. Taking the nation-state borders that divide El Pacífico as a point of departure, I consider the various ways borders and boundaries are constructed in relation to diaspora discourse, processes of racialization, intercultural relations with indigenous groups, the delineation of ancestral territories, and the perception of El Pacífico abroad. 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