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L’« hatajo de negritos » et l’« hatajo de pallitas » de la côte sud-centrale du Pérou
‘Hatajo de Negritos’ and the ‘Hatajo de Pallitas’ from the Peruvian south-central coastline are two complementary expressions featuring music and singing as part of Christmas celebrations, hailing from the central department of Ica in Peru. The expressions are biblical representations of the story of the visit of a group of shepherds to...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les techniques ancestrales et traditionnelles d’élaboration du « Poncho Para’i de 60 Listas » de la ville de Piribebuy, République du Paraguay
The Poncho Para’í de 60 Listas de Piribebuy is a handmade garment from Paraguay consisting of three parts: the body, the fringes and the fajita or guard. Each part entails different crafting procedures which are carried out collaboratively by women weavers. To create the poncho, the practitioners weave three types of cotton threads,...
Latin America and CaribbeanParaguayNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le système ancestral de connaissances des quatre peuples autochtones arhuaco, kankuamo, kogi et wiwa de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
The Ancestral System of Knowledge of the Arhuaco, Kankuamo, Kogui and Wiwa peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is comprised of sacred mandates that keep the existence of the four peoples in harmony with the physical and spiritual universe. Through many years of dedication, the knowledgeable men (Mamos) and women (Sagas) acquire...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La cosmovision andine des Kallawaya
The Kallawaya ethnic group, based in the mountainous Bautista Saavedra region north of La Paz, traces its roots to the pre-Inca period. Like many aspects of Andean culture, the Kallawaya’s practices and values have evolved through the fusion of native and Christian religions. The principal activity of the Kallawaya involves the practice...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les processus et techniques artisanaux des fibres végétales pour le tissage des talcos, crinejas et pintas du chapeau pinta’o
The artisanal process of obtaining the plant fibres for weaving talcos, crinejas and pintas used to make pintao hats is a manual process carried out using five plants and swamp mud. Artisans weave braids and create talco weaves with different designs and pintas. Participants either plant, process the raw materials, weave or create the...
Latin America and CaribbeanPanamaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le baile chino
Bailes Chinos are brotherhoods of musicians who express their faith through music, dance and singing in the context of commemoration festivities. The practice stretches mainly from the area known as the Norte Chico to the central region of Chile and comprises five fully differentiated styles, each named after the valley or basin where...
Latin America and CaribbeanChileNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le programme bioculturel pour la sauvegarde de la tradition du palmier béni au Venezuela
The activities associated with the biocultural programme for the safeguarding of the tradition of the Blessed Palm in Venezuela involve gathering several palm species in a specific group of mountains. After receiving a blessing during the religious ceremony, the ‘palmeros’ go up to the mountain, where they spend several nights,...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le boléro, identité, émotion et poésie en chanson
Bolero is an indispensable part of the Latin American sentimental song, with a strong lyrical character deeply rooted in Cuba and Mexico. A cultural amalgam, it combines the language used in European poetry, with African rhythms of enslaved peoples and the sentiments of the native peoples of the Americas. Bolero lyrics allude to daily...
Latin America and CaribbeanCuba / MexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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L’appel à projets du Programme national du patrimoine immatériel
Each year, a national call for projects from the Programa Nacional de Patrimônio Imaterial encourages and supports safeguarding initiatives and practices proposed by the Brazilian society for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. The projects must involve the participation of the community and groups concerned, promote...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le Candombe et son espace socioculturel : une pratique communautaire
Every Sunday and on many holidays, the ''llamadas'' ''de'' ''tambores'' ''de'' ''candombe'' or candombe drum calls enliven the Sur, Palermo and Cordón districts in southern Montevideo, Uruguay, home to a population of African descent. The practice of the candombe begins around communal fires as people gather to tune their drums and...
Latin America and CaribbeanUruguayNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le cercle de capoeira
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian cultural practice – simultaneously a fight and a dance – that can be interpreted as a tradition, a sport and even an art form. Capoeira players form a circle at the centre of which two players engage with one another. The movements require great bodily dexterity. The other players around the circle sing,...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le carnaval de Negros y Blancos
Arising out of native Andean and Hispanic traditions, the Carnaval de negros y blancos (Black and White Carnival) in San Juan de Pasto in south-western Colombia is a great celebration lasting from 28 December to 6 January each year. The celebrations begin on the 28th with the Carnival of Water − the throwing of water in homes and on the...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le carnaval de Barranquilla
Every year during the four days before Lent, the Carnival de Barranquilla offers a repertory of dances and musical expressions originating from different Colombian sub-cultures. Because of its geographical location situated on the Caribbean coast and the commercial development during the colonial period, the city of Barranquilla became...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le carnaval d’El Callao, représentation festive d’une mémoire et d’une identité culturelle
The Carnival of El Callao, practised in communities of Venezuela, is associated with cannes brulées emancipation celebrations in French-speaking islands of the Caribbean. Running from January to March, the traditional practice features parades of people dressed as characters from history and fantasy, as well as calypso music, dancing...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le carnaval d’Oruro
The town of Oruro, situated at an altitude of 3,700 metres in the mountains of western Bolivia and once a pre-Columbian ceremonial site, was an important mining area in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Resettled by the Spanish in 1606, it continued to be a sacred site for the Uru people, who would often travel long distances to...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Ch’utillos, la fête de Saint Barthélemy et de Saint Ignace de Loyola : la rencontre des cultures à Potosí
Ch’utillos, or the Festival of San Bartolomé and San Ignacio de Loyola, is celebrated in Potosí, Bolivia in the month of August. An integral part of the local cultural identity, the festival is characterised by gastronomic fairs, dance performances and a procession to the sanctuary located in the Mullu Punku gorge, a natural site with...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le chamamé
Chamamé is a form of popular cultural expression that is mainly practised in the Corrientes province. Its key components include a style of ‘close embrace’ dancing where participants hold each other chest to chest and follow the music without set choreography. Other elements include musiqueada, a celebratory act that includes a party,...
Latin America and CaribbeanArgentinaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Charrería, tradition équestre au Mexique
Charrería is a traditional practice of livestock herding communities in Mexico. It was initially used to help herders managing livestock from different estates better coexist. Techniques were then passed on to younger generations within families. These days, purpose-built charrería associations and schools assist in continuing...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le bram de Noël et le sambai de Gales Point Manatee au Belize
The Christmas Bram and Sambai are annual cultural celebrations held on 25 and 26 December in the Gales Point Manatee Village, located on a peninsula inside Southern Lagoon on the central coast of Belize. Deeply rooted in African heritage, these festivities promote unity and a shared sense of identity within the practising community. The...
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Le Círio de Nazaré (Le Cierge de Notre-Dame de Nazareth) à Belém, dans l’État du Pará
The Círio de Nazaré festival in Belém honours Our Lady of Nazareth. The main procession concludes the festivities on the second Sunday of October, when a wooden image of Our Lady of Nazareth is carried from Sé Cathedral to Sanctuary Square¬¬¬, but the celebrations start in August and run until fifteen days after the procession. Almost...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La tradition du théâtre dansé Cocolo
The Cocolo dancing drama tradition developed among descendants of British Caribbean slaves who had come to the Dominican Republic in the mid-nineteenth century to work in the sugar fields. This linguistically and culturally distinct community set up their own churches, schools, benevolent societies and mutual assistance lodges. Their...
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Les chants de travail de llano colombo-vénézuéliens
Colombian-Venezuelan llano work songs are a practice of vocal communication consisting of tunes sung individually, a capella, on the themes of herding and milking. The practice emerged from the close relationship between human communities and cattle and horses and is in harmony with the environmental conditions and the dynamics of...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombia / Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les processus de construction de la maison quincha et de la junta de embarre/embarra
The construction of mud or clay houses, known as quincha houses, is a traditional building practice commonly found in rural and semi-urban areas in many parts of Panama. These homes are made using a mix of clay soil, hay and natural fibres, along with wood and plants to support the structure. This construction process – called a 'junta...
Latin America and CaribbeanPanamaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le cuarteto : musique, danse et paroles dans la ville de Córdoba, Argentine
Cuarteto is a lively dance music genre that blends local criollo musical styles with influences from European immigrants. Early cuarteto orchestras featured instruments such as the piano, violin, accordion and double bass, with a singer leading the performance. Over time, the genre has incorporated Caribbean rhythms, Afro-Latin...
Latin America and CaribbeanArgentinaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le complexe culturel du bumba-meu-boi du Maranhão
The Cultural Complex of Bumba-meu-boi from Maranhão is a ritualistic practice involving forms of musical, choreographic, performing and ludic expression, in which the practitioners’ relationship with the sacred is mediated by the figure of the ox. The practice features certain key distinguishing elements: the cycle of life; the...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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L’espace culturel de Palenque de San Basilio
The village of Palenque de San Basilio, with a population of about 3,500 inhabitants, is located in the foothills of the Montes de María, southeast of the regional capital, Cartagena. Palenque de San Basilio was one of the walled communities called palenques, which were founded by escaped slaves as a refuge in the seventeenth century....
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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L’espace culturel de la Fraternité du Saint-Esprit des congos de Villa Mella
The Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella is distinguished in the fields of music, dance and popular festivities. The Brotherhood musicians play instruments called congos. These congos, the origin of which is attributed to the Holy Spirit, are hand-drums. The Brotherhood, which is nowadays open to all without...
Latin America and CaribbeanDominican RepublicNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les danses et expressions associées à la Fête-Dieu
The Corpus Christi festival is a religious festival in Panama that celebrates the body and blood of Christ. The festival combines Catholic tradition with popular practices and festivities and is characterized by theatre, music, burlesque dances and colourful costumes and masks. A day before the festival, a theatrical and musical...
Latin America and CaribbeanPanamaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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El Güegüense
A forceful expression of protest against colonial rule, El Güegüense is a satirical drama well known throughout Nicaragua. It is performed during the feast of San Sebastián, patron saint of the city of Diriamba in Nicaragua’s Carazo province. El Güegüense, a synthesis of Spanish and indigenous cultures combining theatre, dance and...
Latin America and CaribbeanNicaraguaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Esuwa, prières chantées en Harakbut des Wachiperi du Pérou
The Wachiperi are an indigenous ethnic group speaking the Harakbut language and living in Peru’s southern Amazon tropical forest. The Esuwa or sung prayer is an expression of Wachiperi religious myths, performed for healing or as part of traditional ceremonies such as the drinking of masato, a traditional beverage made of fermented...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le cirque de tradition familiale au Chili
The family tradition circus is a way of life that combines traditions and skills that have been passed down through the generations. It brings together families who travel in caravans, sharing their art and culture wherever they go. For the bearers, circus life is a vocation, deeply rooted in family and community. Although each circus...
Latin America and CaribbeanChileNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le musée vivant du Fandango
Fandango is a popular music and dance expression in coastal communities in southern and south-eastern Brazil. Fandango songs are called ''modas'' and are played with handmade instruments – viola, fiddle and frame drum. Traditionally, fandangos were offered as payment for collective activities, such as planting, harvesting and fishing....
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le festival de Saint François d’Assise, Quibdó
Every year from 3 September to 5 October the twelve Franciscan districts of Quibdó, Colombia, hold the Fiesta de San Pacho, a celebration of the community’s Afro-descendant Chocó identity, embedded in popular-rooted religion. It begins with the Catholic ‘Inaugural Mass’ at the Cathedral blended with traditional dances and chirimía music...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le cycle des festivités autour de la vénération et du culte de Saint Jean-Baptiste
The Venezuelan Saint John the Baptist celebrations feature practices and knowledge that originated in the eighteenth century in Afro-Venezuelan communities associated with former colonial estates. From the beginning, the festivities have been heavily influenced by Catholicism, but they are also rich in verbal, musical and physical...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les parrandas, fêtes du centre de Cuba
Held for the first time in 1820 in the town of Remedios, the Festivity of Las Parrandas is now celebrated by eighteen communities in the centre of Cuba, mostly taking place towards the final months of the year. The Parrandas is a cultural competition between the two neighbourhoods or parties into which each town is divided, with ‘spies’...
Latin America and CaribbeanCubaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Fête de la Vierge de Guadalupe, patronne de Sucre
The Festivity of the Virgin of Guadalupe is a religious and cultural event held each year in Sucre. It honours the Virgin of Guadalupe, seen by many as a spiritual protector. Coordinated by the Catholic Church and the Association of Folkloric Groups, the celebration combines faith with music, dance and traditional art. It begins with...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La fête de la Virgen de la Candelaria de Puno
The Festivity of Virgen de la Candelaria, celebrated each February in the city of Puno, includes activities of religious, festive and cultural character that draw on Catholic traditions and symbolic elements of the Andean worldview. The main festival commences at the beginning of the month with a daybreak mass, followed by an ancient...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le filete porteño à Buenos Aires, technique picturale traditionnelle
Filete porteño from Buenos Aires is a traditional painting technique used for ornamental design that combines brilliant colours with specific lettering styles. It can be seen as a form of decoration on urban buses and trucks and is also used for store signage and increasingly, home decoration. Images used relate back to the city’s...
Latin America and CaribbeanArgentinaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le frevo, arts du spectacle du Carnaval de Recife
Frevo is a Brazilian artistic expression comprising music and dance, performed mainly during the Carnival of Recife. Its quick frenetic and vigorous rhythm draws upon the fusion of musical genres such as marching music, Brazilian tango, square dance, polka and pieces of classical repertoire, performed by martial bands and fanfares. The...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La grande fête de Tarija
The Grand Festival of Tarija takes place in the city of Tarija, in the southeast of Bolivia. Celebrated every year in August and September, it involves devotional processions, music festivals, competitions and fireworks dedicated to Saint Roch. The festival has its origins in the colonial period, when the inhabitants of the city...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La guarania, son de l'âme paraguayenne
The Guarania is a musical genre originating in Paraguay. Created in the early twentieth century, it is a collective expression of Paraguayan values. It uses the Guarani language, combining elements of native and popular music. The genre is characterized by syncopated rhythms and a slow tempo that is inspired by the Paraguayan polka. It...
Latin America and CaribbeanParaguayNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Semaine sainte au Guatemala
Holy Week in Guatemala is one of the country’s most notable events, entailing processions, vigils, funeral marches, seasonal gastronomy and the creation of carpets, orchards and altars. On this occasion, the fronts of houses and buildings are also decorated, adding to the festive atmosphere. Holy Week is a religious and cultural...
Latin America and CaribbeanGuatemalaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les processions de la Semaine sainte à Popayán
The Holy Week processions in Popayán are one of the oldest traditions in Colombia, practised since the colonial period. From the Tuesday to the Saturday before Easter, between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., a series of processions take place. The five processions, devoted to Mary, Jesus, the Cross, the Laying in the Tomb, and the Resurrection...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Huaconada, danse rituelle de Mito
Huaconada is a ritual dance performed in the village of Mito in the province of Concepción in the central Peruvian Andes. Every year, on the first three days of January, masked men known as ''huacones'' perform a choreographed series of dances in the centre of the town. The ''huacones'' represent the former council of elders, and for...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le programme de pratiques de sauvegarde du PCI pour le Festival culturel et écologique des tortues marines d’Armila
For centuries, the people of Armila, Panama have lived in harmony with their natural environment and local fauna, a relationship that is embodied in oral traditions. In response to the decreasing transmission of these oral traditions, and to strengthen the artisanal practices and ritual expressions, dances and music associated with...
Latin America and CaribbeanPanamaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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L’Ichapekene Piesta, la plus grande fête de Saint Ignace de Moxos
Every year, the inhabitants, both young and old, of San Ignacio de Moxos in Bolivia celebrate Ichapekene Piesta, a syncretic festival that reinterprets the Moxeño founder myth of the Jesuit victory of Ignacio de Loyola and melds it with indigenous beliefs and traditions. The festivities begin in May with firework displays, singing and...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les fêtes indigènes dédiées aux morts
As practised by the indigenous communities of Mexico, el Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) commemorates the transitory return to Earth of deceased relatives and loved ones. The festivities take place each year at the end of October to the beginning of November. This period also marks the completion of the annual cycle of cultivation...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le joropo au Venezuela
Joropo is a lively festive tradition resulting from the encounter between Indigenous People, Africans and Europeans. Its practice varies according to the regions: East, Guayana, The Andes, West Central, Central and The Plains. It combines music, poetry, singing and dancing, and involves various instruments such as the harp, cuatro,...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Soupe au giraumon
Joumou or giraumon soup is a traditional Haitian pumpkin soup made with vegetables, plantains, meat, pasta and spices. It is a celebratory dish, deeply rooted in Haitian identity, and its preparation promotes social cohesion and belonging among communities. Originally reserved for slave owners, Haitians took ownership of the soup when...
Latin America and CaribbeanHaitiNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le Junkanoo
Junkanoo is the national cultural festival of The Bahamas. Dating back to the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was brought to The Bahamas by enslaved Africans who used their three-day holiday to recreate festivals from home. An outlet for creative expression, today Junkanoo is mainly celebrated through parades that retain many...
Latin America and CaribbeanBahamasNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le savoir-faire des maîtres du rhum léger
Cuban light rum emerges in 1862 in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Since then, there has been an uninterrupted transmission of the Cuban light rum masters' knowledge, which is put into practice in aging cellars, mixture areas and laboratories. The Cuban light rum masters' knowledge is a set of traditional, scientific, sensory knowledge...
Latin America and CaribbeanCubaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les connaissances, savoir-faire et rituels liés à la rénovation annuelle du pont Q’eswachaka
The Q’eswachaka bridge is a rope suspension bridge over a gorge of the Apurimac River in the southern Andes. It is renewed every year, using traditional Inca techniques and raw materials. The Quechua-speaking peasant communities of Huinchiri, Chaupibanda, Choccayhua and Ccollana Quehue see it as a means of strengthening their social...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La parranda de San Pedro de Guarenas et Guatire
Every year in the small towns of Guarenas and Guatire, devotees of San Pedro the Apostle celebrate his saint’s day with a series of popular festivities and rituals. An image of San Pedro is stored in all the town’s churches while the saint is celebrated with popular songs. Then, at midnight, a mass is held and the images are taken out...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La romería, cycle rituel de pèlerinage de la Vierge de Zapopan portée en procession
The annual celebration of La Romería on 12 October, honouring the image of the Virgin of Zapopan, is a tradition that dates back to 1734. The day marks the final phase of the annual ritual cycle popularly known as ‘The Carrying of the Virgin’, which begins in May and encompasses many community and liturgical activities. The cycle ends...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Tumba Francesa
The dance, song and drumming style known as Tumba Francesa (French Drum) was brought to Cuba by Haitian slaves who were resettled in the island’s eastern regions following the unrest in Haiti during the 1790s. It embodies one of the oldest and most tangible links to the Afro-Haitian heritage of Cuba’s Oriente province and developed from...
Latin America and CaribbeanCubaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La langue, la danse et la musique des Garifuna
A population of mixed origin incorporating cultural elements of indigenous Caribbean and African groups, the Garifuna settled along the Atlantic coast of Central America after being forced to flee from the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in the eighteenth century. Today, Garifuna communities mainly live in Honduras, Guatemala,...
Latin America and CaribbeanBelize / GuatemalaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les tableaux vivants de Galeras, Sucre
The Living Pictures of Galeras in Colombia is a collective and community-based artistic expression that consists of recreating static scenes related to religion, daily life, literature, current affairs, legends, or any other topic that may arise from the rich collective imaginary. The staging of a picture demands a concerted effort...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La tradition orale Mapoyo et ses points de référence symboliques dans leur territoire ancestral
The oral tradition of the Mapoyo and its symbolic points of reference within the ancestral territory encompass a body of narratives that constitute the collective memory of the Mapoyo people. It is symbolically and permanently linked to a number of places located within the ancestral territory of the community along the Orinoco River in...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le Mariachi, musique à cordes, chant et trompette
Mariachi is a traditional Mexican music and a fundamental element of Mexican culture. Traditional Mariachi groups, made up of two or more members, wear regional costumes adapted from the charro costume and interpret a broad repertoire of songs on stringed instruments. Ensembles playing ‘modern Mariachi’ include trumpets, violins, the...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les musiques de marimba, les chants et les danses traditionnels de la région du Pacifique Sud colombien et de la province d'Esmeraldas d'Équateur
Marimba music and traditional chants and dances are musical expressions integral to the family and community fabric of people of African descent in the Colombian South Pacific region and Esmeraldas Province of Ecuador. Chanted stories and poems are performed by men and women at ritual, religious and festive events as a celebration of...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombia / EcuadorNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les traditions des Marrons de Moore Town
Situated in the highlands of eastern Jamaica, Moore Town is home to the descendants of independent communities of former runaway slaves known as Maroons. The African ancestors of the Moore Town Maroons were forcibly removed from their native lands to the Caribbean by Spanish slave traders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The...
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La musique et la danse de la bachata dominicaine
The music and dance of Dominican Bachata is a danceable musical expression, deriving from a fusion of rhythmic bolero with other Afro-Antillean genres such as Son, the Cha-cha-cha, Merengue, etc. The Dominican people consider the music and dance of Bachata as a vernacular cultural manifestation, omnipresent in community celebrations and...
Latin America and CaribbeanDominican RepublicNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La musique et la danse du merengue en République dominicaine
The merengue is considered part of the national identity of the Dominican community. It plays an active role in various aspects of people’s daily lives – from their education to social gatherings and celebrations, even political campaigning. In 2005, the traditional practice was recognised by presidential decree with November 26...
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L’art ñai’ũpo, un artisanat ancestral de la céramique
Ñai’ũpo is a traditional ceramic craft that involves making blackish cooking and eating utensils by hand using natural materials and techniques that have been passed down through the generations. Practiced by communities organised in associations of potters in Itá, Tobatí and Yaguarón, the process is both practical and cultural,...
Latin America and CaribbeanParaguayNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La cérémonie de la Nan Pa’ch
The Paach ceremony is a corn-veneration ritual celebrated in San Pedro Sacatepéquez. The ceremony gives thanks for good harvests in a ritual that highlights the close connection between humans and nature and features prayers in the Mam language. The participants are mostly older farmers, both men and women, with extensive ties to the...
Latin America and CaribbeanGuatemalaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les expressions orales et graphiques des Wajapi
The Wajapi of the Tupi-guarani cultural-linguistic group are indigenous to the northern Amazonian region. Some 580 Wajapi live in 40 small villages on a specially designated territory in the state of Amapá. The Wajapi have a long history of using vegetable dyes to adorn their bodies and objects with geometric motifs. Over the centuries,...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le patrimoine oral et les manifestations culturelles du peuple Zápara
The Zápara people live in a part of the Amazon jungle straddling Ecuador and Peru. The Zápara developed in what is one of the most bio-diverse areas in the world and are the last representatives of an ethno-linguistic group that included many other populations before the Spanish conquest. In the heart of Amazonia, they have elaborated...
Latin America and CaribbeanEcuador / PeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les traditions pastorales et les chars à bœufs du Costa Rica
The traditional oxcart, or carreta, is the product of Costa Rica’s most famous craft. Dating from the mid-nineteenth century, oxcarts were used to transport coffee beans from Costa Rica’s central valley over the mountains to Puntarenas on the Pacific coast, a journey requiring ten to fifteen days. The oxcarts used spokeless wheels, a...
Latin America and CaribbeanCosta RicaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les Parachicos dans la fête traditionnelle de janvier à Chiapa de Corzo
The traditional Great Feast takes place from 4 to 23 January every year in Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico. This celebration of music, dance, handicrafts, gastronomy, religious ceremonies and feasting takes place in honour of three Catholic saints: Saint Anthony Abbot, Our Lord of Esquipulas and, most importantly, Saint Sebastian. The dances of...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le pasillo, chant et poésie
The pasillo is a type of music and dance that emerged in Ecuador in the nineteenth century, during the South American independence wars. It is a fusion of elements of indigenous music, such as the yaraví, with a complex variety of musical genres including the waltz, the minuet and the Spanish bolero. The pasillo, which means ‘small...
Latin America and CaribbeanEcuadorNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le pèlerinage au sanctuaire du seigneur de Qoyllurit’i
The Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllurit’i combines elements from Catholicism and worship of pre-Hispanic nature deities. It begins fifty-eight days after the Christian celebration of Easter Sunday, when 90,000 people from around Cusco travel to the sanctuary, located in Sinakara hollow. Pilgrims are divided into eight...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le pèlerinage à Watt Town
The Revival Pilgrimage to the community of Watt Town in Jamaica occurs every year on the first Thursday in March. Watt Town is considered a sacred site, which was once a refuge for enslaved Africans. Groups, called bands, journey from across Jamaica to the sacred site. The bands engage in ritual songs and dances, wearing clothing with...
Latin America and CaribbeanJamaicaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Pirekua, chant traditionnel des P’urhépecha
Pirekua is a traditional music of the indigenous P’urhépecha communities of the State of Michoacán, Mexico, sung by both men and women. Its diverse mix of styles draws on African, European and indigenous American origins, with regional variations identified in 30 of the 165 P’urhépecha communities. A Pirekua, which is generally sung...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les lieux de mémoire et traditions vivantes du peuple Otomí-Chichimecas de Tolimán : la Peña de Bernal, gardienne d’un territoire sacré
Living in the semi-desert zone of the state of Querétaro in central Mexico, the Otomí-Chichimeca people have developed a range of traditions that express a unique relationship with their local topography and ecology. Their cultural environment is dominated by a symbolic triangle formed by the Zamorano and Frontón hills and the Bernal...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les valeurs, connaissances, coutumes et pratiques du peuple awajún liées à la poterie
The Awajún people of northern Peru view pottery as an example of their harmonious relationship with nature. The pottery preparation process comprises five stages: the collection of materials, modelling, firing, decorating and finishing. Each stage of the process has a meaning and associated values that are told in the people’s oral...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les pratiques et significations associées à la préparation et à la consommation du ceviche, une expression de la cuisine traditionnelle péruvienne
Ceviche is a traditional dish in Peru prepared with raw fish marinated in lemon, seasoned with chili pepper and salt and accompanied with locally grown produce. The dish is consumed both on a daily basis and during festivities. It is associated with moments of celebration and social gathering, as well as with ritual celebrations,...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les pratiques et connaissances traditionnelles liées au terere, boisson guaraní ancestrale au Paraguay, dans la culture du pohã ñana
The practices and traditional knowledge of Terere in the culture of Pohã Ñana, Guaraní ancestral drink in Paraguay, are widespread in the Paraguayan territory and involve a variety of bearers. Terere is a traditional drink prepared in a jug or thermos, in which cold water is mixed with Pohã Ñana crushed in a mortar. It is served in a...
Latin America and CaribbeanParaguayNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le Programme de sauvegarde des Bandos et Parrandas des Saints Innocents de Caucagua : pôles d’initiation et de transmission des connaissances et Conseils communautaires
The Bandos and Parrandas of the Holy Innocents of Caucagua, Venezuela refers to street celebrations that take place on the nights of 27 and 28 December. This Afro-descendant festivity is characterized by live music and satirical clothing mocking the styles of slave owners. A safeguarding programme was developed to address its decreasing...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Pujllay et Ayarichi : musiques et danses de la culture yampara
Pujllay and Ayarichi are the main musical and choreographic forms of the Yampara culture. They complement each other and form a whole: Pujllay linked to the rainy season and Ayarichi to the dry. Pujllay is performed primarily by males, during the ritual of the same name celebrating the renewal of life and abundance brought on by rains....
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le punto
Punto is the poetry and music of Cuban farmers, consisting of a tune or melody over which a person sings an improvised or learned stanza of ten octameter verse lines, with a rhyming scheme. There are two main variants of Punto: punto libre, a tune of free metre; and punto fijo, which can be in key or crossed. Throughout history, the...
Latin America and CaribbeanCubaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La poterie de Quinchamalí et Santa Cruz de Cuca
Chili's Quinchamalí and Santa Cruz de Cuca pottery is embedded in the mestizo cultural tradition of central Chile and is characterized by black functional and decorative objects with white accents, created using techniques dating back centuries. Functional items include pots, fountains and tableware. Decorative items include figurines...
Latin America and CaribbeanChileNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La tradition du théâtre dansé Rabinal Achí
The Rabinal Achí is a dynastic Maya drama, which developed in the fifteenth century and a rare example of preserved pre-Hispanic traditions. It comprises myths of origin and addresses popular and political subjects concerning the inhabitants of the region of Rabinal, expressed through masked dance, theatre and music. The oral and...
Latin America and CaribbeanGuatemalaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le reggae de Jamaïque
Having originated within a cultural space that was home to marginalized groups, mainly in Western Kingston, the Reggae music of Jamaica is an amalgam of numerous musical influences, including earlier Jamaican forms as well as Caribbean, North American and Latin strains. In time, Neo-African styles, soul and rhythm and blues from North...
Latin America and CaribbeanJamaicaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La représentation de la Passion, de la Mort et de la Résurrection du Christ à Iztapalapa
The Representation of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ in Iztapalapa is a community tradition that brings together local residents in an expression of faith, identity and culture. It began when the community made a promise to hold a procession in gratitude after surviving a cholera epidemic in the nineteenth century. The...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les expressions rituelles et festives de la culture congo
The ritual and festive expressions of the Congo culture encompass the contemporary vision of a collective celebration of the black rebel descendants enslaved during the colonial period. Nowadays, participants play congo, celebrate their freedom, cheerfully sing about their everyday lives and perform representations and sensual dances...
Latin America and CaribbeanPanamaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La cérémonie rituelle des Voladores
The ritual ceremony of the Voladores (‘flying men’) is a fertility dance performed by several ethnic groups in Mexico and Central America, especially the Totonac people in the eastern state of Veracruz, to express respect for and harmony with the natural and spiritual worlds. During the ceremony, four young men climb a wooden pole...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les parcours rituels dans la ville de La Paz pendant l'Alasita
During the ritual journeys in La Paz during Alasita, which begin on 24 January and last two or three weeks, participants procure ‘good luck’ miniatures associated with Ekeko, the city’s beneficent god of fertility. The activities begin with the search for and acquisition of the miniatures, followed by their consecration with the...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La rumba à Cuba, mélange festif de musiques et de danses et toutes les pratiques associées
The music and movements of rumba in Cuba are mainly associated with African culture but also feature elements from Antillean culture and Spanish flamenco. Historically, rumba in Cuba developed in marginal neighbourhoods of cities in Cuba like Havana and Matanzas, near other ports and shanty towns and grew especially popular in rural...
Latin America and CaribbeanCubaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel des communautés Aymara de la Bolivie, du Chili et du Pérou
The proposed sub-regional project aims at developing safeguarding measures to ensure the viability of the oral expressions, music and traditional knowledge (textile art and agricultural technologies) of the Aymara communities of Bolivia (La Paz-Oruro-Potosí), Chile (Tarapacá-Arica-Parinacota-Antofagasta) and Peru (Tacna-Puno-Moquegua)....
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State of / ChileNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Stratégie de sauvegarde de l’artisanat traditionnel pour la consolidation de la paix
The safeguarding strategy of traditional crafts for peace building addresses the weakening of traditional crafts through a system of intergenerational transmission of knowledge between master and apprentice based on the non-formal ‘learning by doing’ method. The safeguarding strategy aims to train different sectors of the population,...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Samba de Roda de Recôncavo de Bahia
The Samba de Roda, which involves music, dance and poetry, is a popular festive event that developed in the State of Bahia, in the region of Recôncavo during the seventeenth century. It drew heavily on the dances and cultural traditions of the region’s African slaves. The performance also included elements of Portuguese culture, such as...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Sarawja, musique et danse aymara de Moquegua
Sarawja, also known as Sarawjatana, is practiced in the valleys of Ticsani and San Felipe, in the Andean region of Moquegua. This annual celebration is held after the Catholic Holy Week, marking the end of the rainy season and the beginning of the harvest. It features a ritual dance performance by dance groups known as ‘ruedas’, or...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La danse des ciseaux
The scissors dance is performed by inhabitants of Quechua villages and communities in the south-central Andes of Peru, and now in urban settings. This competitive ritual dance is performed during dry months coinciding with the main phases of the agricultural calendar. The scissors dance takes its name from the pair of polished iron...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Shakespeare Mas’, une composante traditionnelle du Carnaval annuel à Carriacou
In Grenada, Shakespeare Mas’ combines elements of speechmaking, costume design and public theatre. Practitioners, called ‘kings’, compete against each other, reciting passages from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, historical texts, Bible verses and rhetorical boasts meant to show their prowess with words and language. Incorrect recitations...
Latin America and CaribbeanGrenadaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le Tango
The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango, now familiar around the world, was developed by the urban lower classes in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the Rio de la Plata basin. Among this mix of European immigrants to the region, descendents of African slaves and the natives of the region known as ''criollos,'' a wide range of...
Latin America and CaribbeanArgentina / UruguayNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Taquile et son art textile
The island of Taquile located in Lake Titicaca on the Peruvian High Andean Plateau, is known for its textile art, which is produced as an everyday activity by both men and women, regardless of their age, and worn by all community members. The people of Taquile were relatively isolated from the mainland until the 1950s, and the notion of...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La technique de fabrication des cerfs-volants géants de Santiago Sacatepéquez et Sumpango au Guatemala
The tradition of making and flying kites in Santiago Sacatepéquez and Sumpango, Guatemala dates back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The kites are made over several months and exhibited during the fairs of the Day of the Saints and the Dead, with the aim to communicate with the ancestors. There are five steps to...
Latin America and CaribbeanGuatemalaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le Compas d'Haïti
Compas is a popular music and dance genre that holds deep cultural significance for the practising communities. As strong identifying factor, it brings together people of all ages, genders and backgrounds. The music is characterized by a syncopated rhythm and accompanied by instruments such as guitars, keyboards and drums. Compas...
Latin America and CaribbeanHaitiNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La Confrérie des fleurs et des palmes
The Confraternity of flowers and palms is a traditional celebration that blends indigenous beliefs with Catholic practices in the community of Panchimalco. The event coincides with the beginning of the rainy and harvest season and is characterized by a procession of palms decorated with wildflowers. This procession, which attracts...
Latin America and CaribbeanEl SalvadorNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La festivité de la Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder de la ville de La Paz
The festival of the Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder takes place on the Day of the Holy Trinity in the city of La Paz. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession...
Latin America and CaribbeanBolivia, Plurinational State ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La pratique du son cubain
Son is a traditional music and dance practice that blends singing, instruments, rhythm and movement. It is performed in pairs or groups and combines improvisation with structured patterns. Son includes lyrics drawn from daily life, which are passed down orally, and brings together African and European musical influences. The dance is...
Latin America and CaribbeanCubaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les traditions sociales et culturelles associées aux landships à la Barbade
Landships are community-based cultural groups known for their social structure, performances and shared traditions. They are organized like naval ships, with members holding ranks such as Lord High Admiral, Commander and Kit Inspector. Members use nautical terms with localized meanings to reflect life challenges and achievements....
Latin America and CaribbeanBarbadosNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le savoir-faire et les pratiques traditionnels liés à la fabrication et à la consommation de la cassave
Cassava bread is a round bread made from the cassava tuber. The bread is generally made from the bitter variety of cassava so that it can be preserved for a longer time, although sweet cassava is sometimes used. Cassava bread is usually a part of meals but can be consumed on its own. In Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras and...
Latin America and CaribbeanCuba / Dominican RepublicNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les connaissances et techniques traditionnelles associées au vernis de Pasto mopa-mopa de Putumayo et Nariño
The traditional knowledge and techniques associated with Pasto Varnish mopa-mopa of Putumayo and Nariño encompass three traditional trades: harvesting, woodwork and decorative varnishing. The practice involves harvesting the buds of the mopa-mopa tree in the jungles of Putumayo, the wood processing carried out by carpenters, lathe...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les connaissances et technologies traditionnelles liées à la culture et à la transformation de la curagua
The traditional knowledge and technologies related to the growing and processing of curagua encompass a complex set of practices concerning the cultivation of the plant and the extraction of white fibres, which are characterized by their strength, durability and softness. The fibres are woven into thread and used to produce a range of...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le savoir traditionnel des chamanes jaguars de Yuruparí
The mythical and cosmological structures that make up the traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí represent the cultural heritage of the many ethnic groups that live along the Pirá Paraná River in south-eastern Colombia, in the department of Vaupés. According to ancestral wisdom, the Pirá Paraná forms the heart of a...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La cuisine traditionnelle mexicaine - culture communautaire, vivante et ancestrale, le paradigme de Michoacán
Traditional Mexican cuisine is a comprehensive cultural model comprising farming, ritual practices, age-old skills, culinary techniques and ancestral community customs and manners. It is made possible by collective participation in the entire traditional food chain: from planting and harvesting to cooking and eating. The basis of the...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le système traditionnel des juges de l’eau de Corongo
The Traditional System of Corongo’s Water Judges is an organizational method developed by the people of the district of Corongo in Northern Peru, embracing water management and historical memory. The system, which dates back to pre-Inca times, is primarily aimed at supplying water fairly and sustainably, which translates into proper...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La musique traditionnelle vallenato de la région du Magdalena Grande
Traditional Vallenato music fuses cultural expressions from northern Colombia, the songs of cow-herders of the Greater Magdalena region and the chants of African slaves with the traditional dance rhythms of the indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. These expressions are also blended with Spanish poetry and musical...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les modes traditionnels de fabrication du fromage artisanal minas dans le Minas Gerais
The process of making artisanal Minas cheese involves knowledge and techniques developed by small rural producers in the State of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. Local cheesemakers are proud of the tradition of using raw milk and the ‘pingo’ (drop), a natural yeast composed of region-specific bacteria which, along with the maturation period...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le tissage traditionnel du chapeau de paille toquilla équatorien
The toquilla straw hat is woven from fibres from a palm tree characteristic of the Ecuadorian coast. Coastal farmers cultivate the toquillales and harvest the stems before separating the fibre from the green outer skin. This is boiled to remove chlorophyll and dried for subsequent bleaching with sulfur over a wood fire. Weavers take...
Latin America and CaribbeanEcuadorNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La construction traditionnelle de bateaux en bois à Carriacou et à la Petite Martinique
Traditional wooden boatbuilding is a centuries-old tradition practised in Carriacou and Petite Martinique in Grenada. The men, women and children in the boat-building communities each have specific roles and functions during each stage of the process. Established shipwrights build the boats, felling trees that have been hand-selected...
Latin America and CaribbeanGrenadaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Les diables danseurs de Corpus Christi du Venezuela
The small communities along the central coastal region of Venezuela have a special way to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, an annual Roman Catholic holiday commemorating the presence of Christ in the Sacrament. Groups of adults, young men and children disguised as masked devils dance backwards in penitence as an official of the...
Latin America and CaribbeanVenezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le système normatif Wayuu, appliqué par le Pütchipü’üi (palabrero)
The Wayuu community inhabits the Guajira Peninsula straddling Colombia and Venezuela. Its legislative system comprises a body of principles, procedures and rites that govern the social and spiritual conduct of the community. The system, inspired by principles of reparation and compensation, is applied by the local moral authorities, the...
Latin America and CaribbeanColombiaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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La danse Wititi de la vallée du Colca
The Wititi dance of the Colca Valley is a traditional folk dance associated with the beginning of adult life. It takes the form of a courtship ritual and is typically performed by young people during religious festivities celebrated throughout the rainy season. It is danced in troupes with rows of male and female couples performing a...
Latin America and CaribbeanPeruNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana : le Centre des arts autochtones et sa contribution à la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel du peuple totonaque de Veracruz, Mexique
The Center for Indigenous Arts was designed as a response to a long-term desire of the Totonac people to create an educational institution to transmit their teachings, art, values and culture, while also providing favourable conditions for indigenous creators to develop their art. The structure of the centre represents a traditional...
Latin America and CaribbeanMexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Le Yaokwa, rituel du peuple Enawene Nawe pour le maintien de l’ordre social et cosmique
The Enawene Nawe people live in the basin of the Juruena River in the southern Amazon rainforest. They perform the Yaokwa ritual every year during the drought period to honour the Yakairiti spirits, thereby ensuring cosmic and social order for the different clans. The ritual links local biodiversity to a complex, symbolic cosmology that...
Latin America and CaribbeanBrazilNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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