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Saqra
Saqra (Quechua for malignant, pernicious, bad, bad tempered, wicked / restless / devil, a synonym of ''supay;'' but, unlike Supay, a Saqra entity just plays innocent tricks. Mostly it is represented with animal figures.) is a traditional dance in the highlands of the Cusco Region in Peru. The dancers dress as animal figures. This traditional dance has its origins in the late 19th century in the province of Paucartambo, Cusco and was inspired by the sacred paintings of the so called “Mamacha Carmen” also known as the "Virgen del Carmen". Saqra means roguery, restlessness, agility or mischief in English. It is performed at feasts in honor of patron saints such as '' Mamacha Carmen'' in Paucartambo and ''Virgen del Rosario de Huallhua'' in the San Salvador District of the Calca Province. See also * Ch'unchu * Qhapaq negro * Qhapaq Qulla Qhapaq Qulla (Quechua ''qhapaq'' noble, principal, mighty;Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, ''Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha,'' La Paz, 20 ...
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Paucartambo District, Paucartambo
Paucartambo (from Quechua: Pawqar Tampu, meaning "colored '' tambo''") is one of six districts of the Paucartambo Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Yana Urqu at approximately . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (86.03%) learnt to speak in childhood, 13.71% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language ( 2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)


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Supay
In the Quechua, Aymara, and Inca mythologies, Supay was both the god of death and ruler of the ''Ukhu Pacha'', the Incan underworld, as well as a race of demons. Supay is associated with miners' rituals. With the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Christian priests used the name "Supay" to refer to the Christian Devil. However, unlike Europeans in relation to the Christian Devil, "the indigenous people did not repudiate Supay but, being scared of him, they invoked him and begged him not to harm them"."El indígena no repudiaba al Supay sino que temiéndole, lo invocaba y rendía culto para evitar que le hiciera daño". Cuentas Ormachea, Enrique (1986). "La Diablada: una expresión de coreografía mestiza del altiplano del Collao", ''Boletín de Lima'', Nº 44, p. 35, Lima. Supay acquired a syncretic symbolism, becoming a main character of the ''diabladas'' of Bolivia (seen in the Carnaval de Oruro), Peru and other Andean countries. The name Supay is now roughly translated into ...
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Qhapaq Qulla
Qhapaq Qulla (Quechua ''qhapaq'' noble, principal, mighty;Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, ''Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha,'' La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) ''Qulla'' an indigenous people) is a folk dance in Peru. It is performed at festivals of the Cusco Region, such as '' Mamacha Carmen'' in Paucartambo and the important ''Quyllur Rit'i'' at the Winter Solstice on the mountain Qullqipunku.''Historia del Arte Peruano,'' Fascículo 3: "Ritos y Fiestas: Origen del Teatro y la Danza en el Perú," 2007, Ministerio de Educación, Educación por el Arte, Serie 2 para estudiantes de Secundaria, See also * Ch'unchu * Qhapaq negro * Saqra Saqra (Quechua for malignant, pernicious, bad, bad tempered, wicked / restless / devil, a synonym of ''supay;'' but, unlike Supay, a Saqra entity just plays innocent tricks. Mostly it is represented with animal figures.) is a traditional dance in t ... References {{reflist Peruvian dances Native American dances Cusco Region ...
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Qhapaq Negro
Qhapaq negro (Quechua ''qhapaq'' noble, principal, mighty,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) ''negro'' Spanish for black / also refers to person with sub-Saharan African or "black" ancestry) is a traditional dance in the Cusco Region in Peru. It is performed at festivals such as '' Mamacha Carmen'' in Paucartambo, celebrating Our Lady of Mount Carmel. and the Festividad de la Virgen del Rosario (Festival of the Virgin of the Rosary) in the town of Huallhua, San Salvador District, Calca Province, Cusco Department. See also * Ch'unchu * Qhapaq Qulla * Saqra Saqra (Quechua for malignant, pernicious, bad, bad tempered, wicked / restless / devil, a synonym of ''supay;'' but, unlike Supay, a Saqra entity just plays innocent tricks. Mostly it is represented with animal figures.) is a traditional dance in t ... References {{reflist Peruvian dances Native American dances Cusco Region ...
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Ch'unchu (dance)
Ch'unchu is a folk dance in Peru. It is performed on festivals of the Cusco Region like '' Mamacha Carmen'' in Paucartambo and Quyllur Rit'i.Ministerio de Educación, Educación por el Arte, Serie 2 para estudiantes de Secundaria, Historia del Arte Peruano, Fascículo 3: Ritos y Fiestas: Origen del Teatro y la Danza en el Perú, 2007 Varieties include ''q'ara ch'unchu'', ''qhapaq ch'unchu'' and ''wayri ch'unchu''. Its name comes from a derogatory Quechua word (also used in Aymara) for native inhabitants of the Amazon Rainforest.Guillermo Salas CarreñoAcerca de la antigua importancia de las comparsas de ''wayri ch'unchu'' y su contemporánea marginalidad en la peregrinación de Quyllurit'i (On the ancient importance of ''wayri ch'unchu'' dancers and their contemporary marginality in Quyllurit'i pilgrimage) ANTHROPOLOGICA/AÑO XXVIII, No. 28, diciembre de 2010, p. 75 (in Spanish, abstract in English)Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobie ...
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San Salvador District
San Salvador District is one of eight Districts of Peru, districts of the province Calca Province, Calca in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Pachatusan at . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous citizens of Quechua people, Quechua descent. Quechua language, Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (88.68%) learnt to speak in childhood, 10.99% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language, Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población


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Virgen Del Carmen - Paucartambo Peru
Virgen is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It includes part of the Virgen valley in the Venediger Group mountain range, and extensive parts of the municipality are in High Tauern National Park. The history of the area goes back to 500 BC, when copper mining played an important role. After the end of the Roman period Slavs settled in the Virgen valley, who were gradually assimilated by Baiuvarii settlers beginning in the 8th century. The simultaneous Christianization of the area led to the creation of one of the first parishes in the region. During the middle ages Virgen was a part of Carinthia and the County of Gorizia, and by 1500 it was annexed by Tyrol. With a population of 2,200 (as of January 1, 2020), Virgen is the fifth largest community in east Tyrol in terms of population. Agriculture and tourism both play important economic rolls, but a lack of jobs and structural problems lead to a very high commuter rate. Virgen has won awards f ...
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Peruvian Dances
Dance in Peru is an art form primarily of native origin. There are also dances that are related to agricultural work, hunting and war. In Peru dancing bears an important cultural significance. Some choreographies show certain Christian influence. Types of dances * The most internationally known dance in Peru is the Marinera Norteña. This dance represents a man's courting of a young woman. There are local variants of this dance in the Lima Region and the other regions of the country. * Ancash is a dance performed in Piscobamba (Ancash Region), on the occasion of the feast of the Virgin of Mercy, on the 25th, 26th and 27 September. * Apu Inka is a dance which re-enacts the capture of the Inca by the Spanish invaders. * Ch'unchu is a dance performed at festivals of the Cusco Region. * Danzantes de Levanto, a typical dance from the Amazonas Region. * El Vals Criollo (Vals peruano) is a subgenre and musical adaptation of the original European waltz, originated in Peru or also c ...
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Calca Province
Calca may refer to: *Calca Peninsula, a peninsula in South Australia * Calca Province, one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region of Peru * Calca District, one of the eight districts in the Calca Province * Calca, Peru, capital of the Calca District and Province * Calca, South Australia, a settlement on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north. Originally called Eyre’s Peninsula, it was named aft ... * CALCA, the abbreviation for calcitonin-related polypeptide alpha {{geodis ...
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Our Lady Of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order, particularly within the Catholic Church. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place." Our Lady of Mount Carmel was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile. Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Simon Stock (1165–1265). The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on 16 July. The solemn liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was probably firs ...
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Quechua Language
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of 2004.Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish encouraged its use until the Peruvian War of Independence, Peruvian struggle for independence of the 1780s. As a result, Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. History Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the ...
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Patron Saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person. In Christianity Saints often become the patrons of places where they were born or had been active. However, there were cases in Medieval Europe where a city which grew to prominence and obtained for its cathedral the remains or some relics of a famous saint who had lived and was buried elsewhere, thus making them the city's patron saint – such a practice conferred considerable prestige on the city concerned. In Latin America and the Philippines, Spanish and Portuguese explorers often named a location for the saint on whose feast or commemoration day they first visited the place, with that saint naturally becoming the area's patron. Occupations sometimes have a patron saint who had been connected somewhat with it, although some of ...
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