Ch'unchu is a folk dance in

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

. It is performed on festivals of the

Cusco Region Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...

like '' Mamacha Carmen'' in

Paucartambo Paucartambo may refer to: * Paucartambo Province, Cusco region * Paucartambo District, Paucartambo Paucartambo (from Quechua: Pawqar Tampu, meaning "colored '' tambo''") is one of six districts of the Paucartambo Province in Peru. Geography On ...

and

Quyllur Rit'i Quyllurit'i or Qoyllur Rit'i ( Quechua ''quyllu rit'i,'' ''quyllu'' bright white, ''rit'i'' snow, "bright white snow,") is a syncretic religious festival held annually at the Sinakara Valley in the southern highlands Cusco Region of Peru. Local 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 Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **So ...

word (also used in

Aymara Aymara may refer to: Languages and people * Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language ** Aymara language, the main language within that family ** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...

) for native inhabitants of the

Amazon Rainforest The Amazon rainforest, Amazon jungle or ; es, Selva amazónica, , or usually ; french: Forêt amazonienne; nl, Amazoneregenwoud. In English, the names are sometimes capitalized further, as Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Forest, or Amazon Jungle. ...

.Guillermo Salas Carreño
Acerca 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, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)

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{{reflist Peruvian dances Native American dances Cusco Region

See also

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