Awki awki ( Aymara ''awki'' father / gentleman, the

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signifies that there is a group of something) is a folk dance performed in the La Paz Department of

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and in the

Huancané Province Huancané ( ''wanqa'' a big stone, ''-ni'' a suffix, "the one with a big stone (or big stones)") is the capital of the province of Huancané in Peru. The town is located about north of Lake Titicaca Lake Titicaca (; ; ) is a large freshwate ...

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. The dance satirizes the Spanish conquerors of the colonial period.

References

{{reflist Bolivian dances Peruvian dances Indigenous dances of South America La Paz Department (Bolivia) Department of Puno Indigenous culture of the Andes

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