Quechua Foodways

Where in the world

• Bolivia territory
• Ecuador territory
• Peru territory

Communities and languages

• Quechua community documented

Languages: Cusco Quechua

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• influenced by Peruvian Cuisine documented
• part of Kichwa Foodways documented

  Kichwa is the northern Quechuan branch. ⚠ Recorded as part of the linguistic family, not as subordinate to Peruvian or Bolivian practice.

• related to Bolivian Cuisine documented
• related to Ecuadorian Cuisine documented

  ⚠ The deepest relationship. Kichwa is the northern branch of the Quechuan family and Ecuador’s largest Indigenous nationality; maize, potato, chicha and the festival calendar come with it.

• related to Inga, Kamëntsá and the Andean-Amazon Piedmont documented

  Inga is a Quechuan language spoken in the Colombian Andean-Amazon piedmont — the northern edge of the family.

• related to Pachamanca documented
• related to Peruvian Cuisine documented

  Quechua is spoken by millions in Peru and its foodways are a root here, not a Peruvian subsection.

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