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Yungas and Chaco Foodways

Regional

YUNGAS: the steep humid slopes dropping from the Altiplano into the Amazon, growing coffee, citrus, banana and COCA — a traditional Andean stimulant and ritual plant chewed and brewed for millennia, legal in Bolivia, and ⚠ not to be conflated with cocaine, which is an industrial derivative. The Yungas also hold the AFRO-BOLIVIAN communities of Nor Yungas and Sud Yungas, descended from people enslaved and taken to the Potosí mines. CHACO: dry thorn forest in the south-east, GUARANÍ territory, with cattle, goats, maize, peanuts and gathered forest foods.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Afro-Bolivians community documented
  • Guaraní community documented

Languages: Spanish, Aymara, Guarani

What is recorded

  • Enslaved Africans taken to the Potosí mines; their descendants form the Afro-Bolivian communities of the Yungas. documented
  • Coca is a traditional Andean stimulant and ritual plant, chewed and brewed for millennia and legal in Bolivia, where its traditional use is constitutionally protected. It is a distinct matter from cocaine, an industrial derivative, and the two are not conflated in this system. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to African Foodways documented

    The Afro-Bolivian communities of the Yungas descend from people enslaved and taken to the Potosí mines.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

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