La Tortura

Other remixes have also been made by independent DJs. The Serengeti region contains the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Maswa Game Reserve in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. This music video also entered on Total Request Live's countdown. Also in this area is the archeologically significant Olduvai Gorge where some of the oldest hominid fossils are found. A separate music video (also directed by Haussman) was also made for the remix. This phenomenon is sometimes also called the Circular Migration. The single also included a remix, "The Shaketon Mix", merging a reggaeton style with the original rhythm of the song. And then back to the north through the west, once again crossing the Mara river, after the rains in around April.

It can also be noted that the video for "La Tortura" was one of the first in Spanish language to run a lot of times on "mainstream" American music channels such as MTV and VH1. Every year around October nearly 1.5 million herbivores travel towards the southern plains, crossing the Mara River, from the northern hills for the rains. It was also the second Spanish-language video ever to enter in Total Request Live's countdown. This area is most famous for the migration that takes place every year. The music video is in itself somewhat notable, as it was the first time MTV showed an whole episode of the Making the Video series in another language (with English subtitles). Wildebeests, gazelles, zebras and buffalos are the animals most commonly found in the region. He remembers things they'd done in the past as a couple, while Shakira dances erotically, covered in black paint. It has more than 1.6 million herbivores and thousands of predators.

From his apartment, Sanz spies on Shakira as she goes to her apartment and changes clothes. Eighty percent of this region lies in Tanzania. The music video, directed by Michael Haussman, is quite simple. The whole region is spread over around thirty thousand square kilometers. The song was chosen as the World's #5 Favorite Song of All Time in a global survey by Sony Ericsson of 700,000 music fans in 66 countries.
Serengeti is a region of grasslands and woodlands in Africa shared between the countries of Tanzania in the south and Kenya in the north. "La Tortura" broke the record on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart, appearing at #1 for 25 non-consecutive weeks.

It was also a huge hit in Europe, with the exception of the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it was not released as a single. La Tortura was on the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 in less than ten weeks (#23). The video clip of the song was nominated for the Viewer's Choice Award on the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, during which Shakira performed with Sanz (notably, it was the first time a guest performed a song entirely in a language other than English). Since its release as a single, the song has become one of the most important Latin songs to move into mainstream English-speaking culture in the United States (alongside Daddy Yankee's Gasolina).

. The single is Shakira's sixth in the United States, following the commercial success of her 2001 album Laundry Service. It tells the story of a woman who has been emotionally "tortured" because her boyfriend left; however, when he returns begging her forgiveness, she humiliates him and says that she is not going to shed tears over him. The single is a duet between Shakira and Spanish ballad-singer Alejandro Sanz.

"La Tortura" (English: The Torture) is the first single from Colombian-born singer Shakira's sixth studio album, Fijación Oral 1.