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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 ...
like '' Mamacha Carmen'' in Paucartambo 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 in ...
.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.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)


See also

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Ch'unchu people Ch'unchu or Chuncho is a derogatory word used in the Quechua and Aymara languages of Peru for native peoples of the Peruvian Amazon Peruvian Amazonia ( es, Amazonía del Perú) is the area of the Amazon rainforest included within the countr ...
* Qhapaq negro *
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 ...
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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 t ...


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{{reflist Peruvian dances Native American dances Cusco Region