Waka waka (dance)
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Waka waka during the festival Virgen de la Candelaria in Puno, Peru
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Waka waka during the festival Virgen de la Candelaria in Puno, Peru
Waka waka (Aymara and Quechua waka cow[1][2] (a borrowing from Spanish vaca), the reduplication signifies that there is a group of something, "a group of cows") or waka thuquri[3] (Aymara), also spelled waka thuqhuri, is a satirical folk dance performed in Bolivia[3] and Peru. In Peru it is a typical dance of the Cusco and Puno regions.[4]
References
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- ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
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- ↑ Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
