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Monday, 2 September 2013

HIGHLANDER Achachila - - Ancient of 123 years


In the highlands, the term "achachila" is for those   who are eternal as Illampu Snowy

  "Yapuki lurt'a (in my field work NOMAS)," warns Laura Carmelo Flores, the elderly and exbenemérito that on July 16 met 123 years, from the grow-in Frasquía, Achacachi. He says that the secret is in the consumption of quinoa, coca leaf and goose.
Usutatasti? ('re Sick), asks the reporter to the Reason and the man pointing with hand gestures that hurts the whole body and is uqara (deaf), but stands firm seconds and walk 40 meters without difficulty to indicate a small adobe house of blackened walls and thatched roof, where he lives. Next, a house of a brick floor, holds his grandson Edwin Flores, who cares.
Kinuwa (quinoa) cuquitampi (coca), plus the Apilla or goose, potatoes, potato starch and whistle Kanawa were and are still the basis of the power of men like Carmelo. "Wali sumawa kinuwitampi Ch'uq'impi (potato with rich quinoa is good)" reveals from his home located more than 4,000 meters above sea level.
Carmelo is not the only centenary in that area about 150 kilometers from La Paz. At 200 meters from their home lives Callisaya Mamani Ursula, who, according to her son and herself, is 106 years old.

                   An old woman says she has 106 years

"Suxtani maranitwa tunka Pataka (I have 106 years)," says Ursula Callizaya Mamani, about 200 meters from the house of Carmelo Flores Laura (123) in the community of Frasquía, located three hours from the city of La Paz.
Sitting with a small wooden stick with an old hat, the old woman says Carmelo meet. "I have also come from Chachakumani and now I live here, but I can not do anything," the woman laments skirt with his son Santiago Flores, confirming that quinoa, barley, whistle Kanawa and coca leaves his mother consumes are the secret of his longevity.

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