Ch'unchu is a folk dance in

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. It is performed on festivals of the

Cusco Region Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; ), 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 Dios and Puno ...

like '' Mamacha Carmen'' in Paucartambo and

Quyllur Rit'i Quyllurit'i or Qoyllur Rit'i ( 'bright white snow', from 'bright white' and 'snow') is a syncretic religious festival held annually at the Sinakara Valley in the southern highlands Cusco Region of Peru. Local indigenous people of the Andes kn ...

.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, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...

word (also used in

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) for native inhabitants of the

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.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)

References

{{reflist Peruvian dances Indigenous dances of South America Department of Cusco

See also

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