Bahareque, also spelled bareque (also referred to in spanish as bajareque or fajina), is a traditional building technique used in the construction of housing by indigenous peoples.
Similar homophonies are found in other native American languages such as Miteca, ba and balibi, bava.
For instance, bahareque de tierra uses bamboo in both the frame and the structural panels and the plaster, and according to Sarmiento, is made from a mixture of earth and cattle dung.
[6] In the 1840s, the first settlers of Manizales, the capital city of Caldas, used bahareque de tierra in buildings that were usually single story.
[9] Consequently, the estilo temblorero, which was used in a few farms and occasionally in the city of Manizales as temporary housing, gained favor after people saw that earthquakes were destroying buildings built with other construction techniques, such as tapia.