The Festivity of Virgen de la Candelaria, celebrated each February in the city of Puno, draws on Catholic traditions and symbolic elements of the Andean worldview of the local Quechua and Aymara ethnic groups. A liturgical act leads into a religious procession, as the image of the Virgin is carried aloft through the streets. Traditional knowledge and skills of dance, music and mask-making are passed on to younger generations during rehearsals and in craft workshops by three practitioner federations.

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