A group of participants at the celebration of the Tinku sing and play their instruments in the town square.

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Tinku is an Andean ritual and folk dance of the department of Potosi, Bolivia. The meaning of the word Tinku in Quechua is "encounter". In this celebration, attendees of different communities fight each other and offer the spilled blood of Mother Earth. It is a celebration of pre-Columbian origin

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Location: Macha, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, South America
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