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Mate, Tereré and Chimarrão — a note

Comparison

⚠ A WARNING ROW. Yerba mate is Ilex paraguariensis, its use is GUARANÍ in origin, and the Jesuit missions industrialised its cultivation. Four national practices, all real and all different: PARAGUAY drinks TERERÉ — ICE COLD, with pohã ñana medicinal herbs crushed into the water — and it is national cultural heritage there; URUGUAY drinks it hot from a wide gourd with a thermos carried under the arm, and has the highest consumption per head in the world; ARGENTINA drinks it hot and grows most of the world supply; southern BRAZIL drinks CHIMARRÃO from a tall cuia. ⚠ THE PLANT IS PARAGUAYAN AND THE PRACTICE IS GUARANÍ; the national styles are not competing claims to it.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Guaraní community documented

Languages: Guarani, Paraguayan Guarani, Spanish

What is recorded

  • Yerba mate is Ilex paraguariensis, native to the Paraná basin, and its use originates with the Guaraní; Jesuit missions established its cultivation. Paraguay drinks it cold as tereré with medicinal herbs, Uruguay hot with the highest per-capita consumption in the world, Argentina hot and as the largest producer, and southern Brazil as chimarrão. These are four national practices of one Indigenous tradition, not competing claims to it. documented

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