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The Aymara or Aimara (Aymara: aymara listen ⓘ), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. Approximately 2.3 million Aymara live in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The ancestors of the Aymara lived in the region for many centuries before becoming a subject people of the Inca Empire in ...
The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia are a group of Aymara women who summit different mountains all throughout Latin America while wearing their traditional dresses. The group was formed in 2015, and the women are all part of a tight knit community who work and live in the mountains. Their most recent expedition has become their most notable, as on ...
Aymara women like Challapa, now 59, become acquainted with wool threads under blue skies and air so thin that outsiders struggle to breathe. While herding llamas and alpacas through scarce ...
Rosa Palomino Chahuareses (11 March 1951 – 26 March 2022) [1] was an Aymara Indigenous leader, journalist, human rights activist, and social leader in Peru. [2] In 2014, the Ministry of Culture presented her with an award for her work in developing community radio for women.
The Aymara women remember a time when practically every spot on the glaciers was covered in snow, but now there are parts with nothing but rocks. Bolivia's Indigenous women climbers fear for their ...
The women, ranging from age 42 to 50, have scaled five of the country's peaks after deciding to leave a life of cooking and porting to become mountaineers. Eleven Aymara indigenous women scale ...
Wilamaya Patjxa[3] is an ancestral Aymara [4] archaeological site located on the Andean Altiplano in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Puno, Peru. Mobile forager populations occupied the high-altitude (3,925 m) site approximately 9,000 years ago. The site represents the earliest directly dated evidence of human occupation of the Titicaca Basin and thus ...
Women in Bolivia are honoring their indigenous Aymara heritage while breaking gender stereotypes. ImillaSkate is a skateboarding collective made up of young women from La Paz. The athletes sport ...