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Photograph of a Quechua Woman
who was a weaver living in the village of Chinchero, Peru. This ancient
woman was dressed in the traditional style of Chinchero. Note her unique
hand woven belt ( "chumpi" in Quechua) and her braided hair, all typical of
indigenous Quechua-speaking people from the Andes Mountains of Peru. In
addition, note that the vegetation was very green, indicating that this image
was probably taken in the summer (December - March, in the Southern Hemisphere)
when rains are more frequent than in the winter months (June - September) in
which droughts are common. It rains so much in the summer that the Inca
Trail ("Camino Inca" in Spanish) is actually closed down to hikers for
maintenance during the entire month of February as the trail is often flooded
out, making passage impossible.
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