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Virgen de la Candelaria Festival
Location: Puno
Date: February 1-14
For 18 days, the highland town of Puno, nestled on the
shores of Lake Titicaca at an altitude of 3,870 meters
above sea level, is becomes the Folk Capital of the
Americas.
The festival gathers more than 200 groups of musicians
and dancers to celebrate the Mamacha Candelaria. For the
first nine days, the mayordomos (those in charge of
organizing the festivities), decorate the church and pay
for Mass, banquets and fireworks displays.
On the main day, February 2, the virgin is led through
the city in a colorful procession comprising priests,
altar boys, the faithful, Christians and pagans
carefully maintaining the hierarchy. This is the moment
when the troupes of musicians and dancers take the scene,
performing and dancing throughout the city. The festival
is linked to the pre-Hispanic agricultural cycles of
sowing and harvesting, as well as mining activities in
the region. It is the result of a blend of respectful
Aymara gaiety and ancestral Quechua seriousness.
The dance of the demons, or diablada, the main dance of
the festival, was allegedly dreamed up by a group of
miners trapped down a mine who, in their desperation,
resigned their souls to the Virgen de la Candelaria. The
dancers, blowing zampoña pan-pipes and clad in
spectacular costumes and outlandish masks, make their
offerings to the earth goddess Pachamama. The most
impressive masks, for their terrifying aspect, are those
of the deer fitted with long twisted horns similar to
the Devil, and Jacancho, the god of minerals.
During the farewell, or cacharpari, the dancers who fill
the streets finally head to the cemetery to render
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