Amazonian Peruvian Foodways

La selva

Regional

Roughly sixty per cent of Peru and a small fraction of its people. Rivers as roads — the Amazon, Marañón, Ucayali, Huallaga, Napo; cassava in bitter and sweet forms, plantain, rice; river fish including PAICHE, one of the largest freshwater fish anywhere and now farmed as well as fished, plus doncella, gamitana and boquichico; camu camu, aguaje, cocona, copoazú; chonta palm heart; JUANE wrapped in bijao leaf; tacacho con cecina; and the masato cassava beverage. IQUITOS, Pucallpa, Tarapoto and Moyobamba.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Departamento de Ucayali territory
Departamento de San Martín territory
Departamento de Loreto territory
Departamento de Amazonas territory
Departamento de Madre de Dios territory

Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

related to Ecuadorian Amazon Foodways documented
One Amazonian food region across the border, with shared peoples, yuca processing and river fisheries.