Several attendees at the celebration of Tinku recover the effect of tear gas that has thrown the police to avoid fights in group

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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
Photo credit: © Nacho Calonge / Alamy / Afripics
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