Carnivals in Cusco – Perú
Celebrate the Carnivals in the city of Cusco
The carnivals are a holiday that came to our country with the Colony and these are colorful events where water and joy are always present. Each region, province and district of our Peru has its way of celebrating them and in Cusco the Andean traditions are mixed with this festival brought from the west.
The Cusqueño Carnival has a movable date, although it usually occurs between the months of February and March. In this carnival in this part of the country, the tradition of other Peruvian peoples is followed, where one week is allocated for the "Compadres" and another for the "Comadres". The mode of celebrations this week for one and the other is typical and original in Cusco, during these weeks, in the first the comadres visit the compadres, these are entertained by the women, but at the same time they are victims of many mockeries that these they do the same to you, the following week the same will happen, only in reverse. In these carnival ceremonies of entertainment there is a constant and traditional dish that is served, it is the stew or timpu.
Although the celebration where the Comadres and Compadres are present is the most traditional of Cusco, there are also, within the different provinces of Cusco, some elements added to the carnival celebration, among which you can find yunzas, these yunzas are events in which rounds of single and / or married dance around a previously decorated tree and in which different gifts are placed there by the organizers, the yunza ends when the couples who dance around it manage to bring down the tree with the help of the axes that carry, tradition says that he who knocks down the tree will be responsible for the yunza next year.
At the time of the carnival there are different competitions, mainly the one of the Corsicans where the different towns face with the great color of their floats, clothes and dances, last ones that allow to keep still in force the own traditions of this Peruvian region and between which Find the Carnival of Cusco, along with Huaynos and the famous Carnival of Tinta. On this date, different gastronomic festivals are also held where exquisite traditional dishes are displayed and offered for sale, including the aforementioned Timpu, stew, Kapchi of beans and strawberry, among others. Read more about Carnivals in Cusco