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The indigenous people: the Aymara

The Aymara people is an ancient nation devoted to grazing and agricultural cultivation using ancient The Aymara people
techniques. They have complementaryeconomies, and that those living in the highlands are rich and poor crops herds, while they do in the foothills produce enough vegetables fruits and seeds through the effective use of land by traditionalterraces.
Because these conditions are generated product exchange relations between pastoralists and farmers. This way of living is based on the principle of ayne, concerning reciprocity among Aymara:the request for help in this, it will be reciprocated in the future.

Geographic Location

Flag AymaraLos Aymara inhabit, to push the boundaries imposed by the nations, from the shores of LakeTiticaca and the Andes, to northeastern Argentina. More precisely, according to the latest census of Bolivia and Chile (1992) and Peru (1993) there are 1,237,658 aymaristas Bolivians, Peruvians and 48477 296 465 aymaristas aymaristas Chileans. There are also several communities of the Argentine provinces of Salta and Jujuy who proclaim aymaristas but not speak this language

The Aymara worldviewThe Aymara conceives its habitat as the Andean environment that gave rise to the community and welfare. For him there is only one reality consists of two areas: the natural and the supernaturalworld. The Aymara worldview formed at different times of past and reflects the dramatic changes in its history. It is a religious vision that sanctifies the nature and legitimizes the position of man onit. And so today called Custom to religious rites based on their ancestors and religion to rituals and symbols of Christian origin.

The oldest part (customs) is aimed at Achachillas or Mallkus, whoare the spirits of the snowy mountains surrounding their villages, to the Pachamama, and the snake Amaru, linked to livelihood through the waters, rivers and canals irrigation of agricultural land...