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In 1991, Colombia adopted a new Constitution, which recognized ethnic minorities and, especially, for the “black communities”, made the commitment to allocate them title deeds of collective lands. The link between “ancestral territories” and “afrocolombian” identity is rapidly integrated in certain regions, but was only mobilized twenty years later in Cartagena and its surrounding area. In this context, I will focus on the practices of the occupation, using, measurement, enclosure and land registration that have shaped different transactions involving numerous actors (local populations, tourists, civil servants). By paying special attention to the categories of identity and to the appropriable lands definitions that appear in these practices, it is possible to suggest that the plural designations of a same territory produce spaces of land negotiation that are redefined and even reduced by the ethnicisation of land access convey by the 1991 Constitution.