The boats leave Acandí at four in the morning, when the sea is still flat enough to make the run worth the price. By the time the first one returns, the SENAFRONT post by the church has logged its first thirty arrivals of the day. The agents log the country of origin, the gender, the age bracket, the family size if any, and the entry point. They do not log the route through Colombia that brought the person here, and they do not log what happened in the last twelve hours of that route.
The data the agency releases at the end of each month is the data on those logs. Everything else — the part of the journey that is the most dangerous and the most editorially valuable — exists only in interviews with the shelter staff at Bajo Chiquito, and only when the staff have time to give them.
This part of the corridor moves the slowest. The next part of this series goes to the bus station in San Vicente, where the corridor speeds up again.