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Pachamama Raymi ( Quechua ''Pachamama'' Mother Earth, ''raymi'' feast, "Mother Earth feast") is a ceremony held annually on August 1 in
Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
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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 ...
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Location


Ecuador

In Ecuador, the feast is celebrated in the Zamora-Chinchipe Province.


Peru

In Peru it takes place in the Ccatca District 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 ...
, Quispicanchi Province, on August 1.


Other uses of the expression

Pachamama Raymi also refers to a methodology to generate widespread prosperity in areas of extreme poverty. The methodology was developed since 1988 in Cusco, Peru.


See also

* Willka Raymi


References

{{reflist Festivals in Ecuador Festivals in Peru Department of Cusco Zamora-Chinchipe Province August observances