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6 unusual facts about Aymara


Andean Spanish

It is influenced principally by Castilian, Canarian and Andalusian Spanish, which is favoured in the cities, while in rural areas and some cities, there is influence of Quechua, Aymara, and other indigenous languages.

Coroico

Coroico Viejo (Old Coroico) was founded above the Kori Huayco River (which means "golden valley" in Aymara).

Francisco Moreno

He believed one was from the Quaternary period, and the other had ritual deformation in a manner similar to the skulls of the Aymara people of the Andes and Altiplano.

Prehispanic history of Chile

In the area to the north of the country, the Aymara and the Atacama began to cultivate land from the 11th century in the style of the Incas (growing plants on terraces on the sides of mountains with canal systems).

On the Pacific coast, different cultures and peoples coexisted: the Aymara, Chango, Chinchorro, Atacama, Diaguita in the north: the Picunche, Mapuche, Huilliche, Chono in the Central and Southern region; and the Ona, Yagan and Alakaluf in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

Wilmer Herrison

This exhibition shows like in a travelogue, the deities (with Pachamama, Malku,...), the history of the Amerindian peoples (with Aymara, Tiwanaku,...), the encounter with different civilizations (with Gallia, Bandera, July 14, Ottoman Remembrance, Murano, Arica,...), strength of nature (with Volcano, Hurricane, Naturaleza viva, Twilight with color, Reflection,...) and project ourselves into the universe and its origins (with Exoplanet, Mars, Sedna,...).


Aymara language

Most study of the language has focused on either the Aymara spoken on the southern Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca or the Aymara spoken around La Paz.

Bolivia maize varieties

The indigenous cultures that played a key role in the differentiation of the native Bolivian maize races were the Aymara in the north, the Sauces in central Bolivia, and the Yampara in the south.

Bolivian literature

Nearly half of Bolivia's population speaks indigenous languages such as Quechua, Aymara or Guarani.

Ch'iyar Juqhu

The Aymara name of the mountain correlates with the names of the nearby area (Chiar Jokho) and the river Ch'iyar Juqhu (Chiar Jokho, Chiar Joko) which originates near the mountain.

Chayanta Province

In the late eighteenth century the province was the scene of a rebellion of the Aymara-speaking population led by Tomás Katari and exacerbated by his assassination in January 1781.

Chuno

Chuño, a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Peru and Bolivia

Corazón Aymara

By contrast, historian Carlos Mesa, who founded Cinemateca Boliviana in 1976 and was its director until 1985, then served as President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005, describes Corazón Aymara and Wara Wara as part of an "avant-garde intellectual and artistic movement" which promoted the role of indigenous Bolivians in the 1920s and 1930s.

Demographics of Bolivia

The Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani languages, as well as 34 other native languages are the official language of Bolivia.

Ethnography of Argentina

There are Amerindian groups like the Tobas, Aymaras, Guaraníes and Mapuches among others that still maintain their cultural roots, but under continuous pressure for religious and idiomatic integration.

Native Argentines on the other hand have significant populations in the country's North-West (Quechua, Diaguita, Kolla, Aymara); in the North-East (Guaraní, Mocoví, Toba, Wichí); and in the Patagonia or South (Mapuche, Tehuelche).

Eustaquio Méndez Province

The principal language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 99.7%, while 1.7% of the population speak Quechua, 0.2 speak Aymara, and 0.1% Guaraní.

Gran Chaco Province

Main language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 98.4%, while 11.5% of the population speak Quechua, 3.0 speak Aymara, and 2.7% Guaraní.

History of Bolivian nationality

One example is that the major urban centers were situated in the midst of the Aymara and Quechua communities, which were two of the more influential indigenous groups.

Isla del Sol

In the 1612 Aymara-Spanish dictionary of Ludovico Bertonio, the phrase Tahksi kala is listed as "piedra fundamental" or "foundation stone" possibly alluding to the origin story of the Inca that the Sun and Moon were born in the lake.

Jach'a Uma

Jach'a Uma (Aymara jach'a big, great, uma water, "big water", hispanicized spelling Jacha Uma, Jachcha Uma) is a Bolivian river in the Oruro Department, Cercado Province, Surakachi Municipality, north east of Oruro.

Jaime Enrique Aymara

Aymara was born in Quito, Ecuador, in the San Roque on June 24, 1968 in the district of San Roque.

Juan Pérez Bocanegra

Bocanegra and the Jesuits also disputed how to use Andahuaylillas; the Jesuits wished to make his parish a Quechua-language training center similar to the Aymara one they had established in Juli.

Katarismo

The agrarian reform of 1953 had enabled a group of Aymara youth to begin university studies in La Paz in the 1960s.

Ludovico Bertonio

Sent to Peru six years later, he worked principally among the Aymara of southern Peru and of Bolivia.

Pukara

Pukara (Aymara and Quechua for "fortress", hispanicized spellings pucara, pucará) is a ruin of the fortifications made by the natives of the central Andean cultures (that is to say: from Ecuador to the Central Valley of Chile and the Argentine Northwest) and particularly to those of the Inca.

Sabaya Province

The main language in the province is Spanish, spoken by 92%, while 67% of the population speak Aymara and 9% Quechua.

Socialist Aymara Group

Socialist Aymara Group (in Spanish: Grupo Aymara Socialista) is a political grouping (left-wing indigenist) based amongst the Aymara people that contested the December 2004 municipal elections in Yaco, La Paz Department, Bolivia.

Super Cholita

In her civilian identity she is the Aymara woman Francisca Pizzaro Mamani, daughter of a cholita and a nameless pepino (a traditional carnival clown often deemed responsible for fatherless children), and granddaughter of a mythical highland frog.

Tinkus Wistus

From the vast range of native dances the group chose the Tinku and added in their name the Aymara word "wistu" meaning "crooked", in allusion to the movements of the dance.

Tomas Barrón Province

Main language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 87%, while 82% of the population speak Aymara and 8% Quechua (1992).

Tomás Katari

Tomás Katari or Catari (died January 15, 1781) was an Aymara chief who, in claiming indigenous rights, led a popular uprising in Upper Peru (present-day Bolivia) in the 18th century.

Uru language

In 2004 it had 2 remaining native speakers out of an ethnic group of 140 people in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the rest having shifted to Aymara and Spanish.

Vila Vila Municipality

Vila Vila (in hispanicized spelling) or Wila Wila (Aymara) is the second municipal section of the Mizque Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia.

Yeísmo

The distinction is more common in areas where bilingualism with indigenous languages such as Aymara and Guaraní is common.


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