CULTURE OF MADRE DE DIOS

• FOLKLORE 

Society Mother of God has its folk and folkloric origins within societies or native groups according to studies by historians and anthropologists.

The diversity of ethnic groups in the vast landscape of Madre de Dios, is a rich and diverse folk activity, however expeditionary raid in areas inhabited by them, made to disappear vestiges of a rich folk customs and culture.

For example dances and native music, they have a variety of meanings and applications, but are ritual character, with demonstrations involving a cry, appeal to the solution of a need for sentimental, even manifested in curing a physical ailment, moral and even spiritual.

Folklore and customs in the department of Madre de Dios, from the point of view of their physical body, moral and spiritual manifestations, is as detailed: Myths and legends, Typical dances, Native dances and music.

• DANCES

CHACUYCAZA

Dance staged tiger hunting, animal feared by the people of the tribe of the Sharanahua, these were devoured by this animal, which organized hunted this animal to gradually end with this animal. 

THE RITUAL

This dance shows the embodiment of the typical native dance native to our jungle area where no other mixtures influence elsewhere.

LOS GUERREROS

Turned into dance by former occasion to remember his clashes with other tribes, their glories, defeats etc. His entire cast dance experience.

ELYACUMAMA

Tribute or ritual they do to the Mother of rivers, since for the natives this animal was considered love and troughs of water.

SURI

By the people of the Native Community of Piros, as they say this worm represents its vitality.

THE TINGOTERO

It is a native of Puerto Maldonado inherited from our ancestors, a simulated ants of the same name.

CHULLACHAQUI

Traditional dance of the peoples of the Amazon, created by spreading a belief indigenous peoples, is a man with deer foot and the other human, trying to catch him.

AYAHUASCA

Ritual that pays this possessor of wisdom and illusionism plant.

DON JUANECO

Typical dance depicting the picturesque carnivalesque joy of Madre de Dios.

THE TUNCHE

This dance symbolized by the former and even current belief of the people of our region in the protective spirit of the forest the Tunche, a soul that roams the face of the earth without celestial pardon which frightens people with his terrifying whistle.

THE YANGUNTURO

Reveals the strength and perseverance of a people because of the name comes from a very strong animal, to show it in dance.

RITUAL MACUMBERO

Similar to other rituals, unlike its goal, which is the attraction of man to woman and vice versa.

THE AMAZON

Argued and extracted from the old Amazon, fictionalises events with older people, especially with a group of women feared by others.

THE TACACHO

In this dance the typical habit of the people is expressed, leaving their pates where they have mashed banana and dance around the floor of this fruit.

THE ANACONDA

Characteristic of our area, as this beast shows respect and fear, so that the ethnic groups create a dance expressing their beauty, their strength and their dominant size of this admirable aquatic beast.

RITUAL AYAYMAMAN

Dance where deceit, impurity and lack of parental love is manifested. Makes a bird ceremony which they say the legends before he was human. Ave with sound sad and terrifying at the same time tone. 

THE CASTAÑERO

Dance extracted from the region, as this name derives from the productive extraction of the area, and which reflects the way of how to be performed this work, men with their bags and machetes, with their partners and their ever-present cigar snuff .

• CUSTOMS 

Fantasy dance Suri

The main outstanding feature of this dance is the giant hat adorned with feathers, combined amid a multicolored wool fabric.

Women wear long skirts, in some cases more than one, but always attractive colors in sight. The dress is completed with a simple blouse with ornaments in some cases a kind of vests and slippers to facilitate the elegant dance.

Men adorn their presence wearing dark pants, a kind of hard shell that gives individuals the character features. All costumes are made in bayetilla.

• MUSIC

Currently in various ethnic groups of Madre de Dios, it is clear the influence of mestizo culture. The musical melody, musical instruments are no longer typical of native groups. There is a mixture of customs, making highlight the following dances: changanacuy, Otorongo, Suri and chestnut.