People Of The Pampa, Living In The Peaks Of Peru Have Been Unchanged For 400 Years: High amidst the snow capped Andean peaks of Peru live the Morochu~ans, direct descendants of the Conquistadores. They have been out of touch with civilization for nearly 400 years, have retained their Spanish customs and traditions but only speak Quechua, the language of the In~as. In villages many of them in excess of 16,000 feet, scattered across the pampa, the Morochucane still live in isolated splendour raising great heards of cattle and sheep while enjoying a communal form of government. Over the centuries they have succeeded in breading a small type of horses, many of them even smaller than Shotland ponies, and the only animal that can gallop in the rarefield air at these high altitudes. Occasionally they meet on the Great Pampa especially to attend a wedding ceremony which offers a good excuse for a week of festivities.
A Group Of The Mountain Horsemen Of Peru.
Photo measures 8.25 x 6 inches.
Photo is dated --0000.
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