Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Four Indigenous Aymara climbers hope to become the first Bolivian women to summit Mount Everest. They plan on wearing the traditional pollera, once a symbol of ...

Unesco’s support for the project to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage of the Aymara communities of Bolivia, Chile and Peru should be seen as an example for Latinamerica, according to ...

the language of the Aymara people from the Andean region. A poetic exploration of a changing world that was anchored by the beautiful vistas of that oft-inhospitable landscape, it announced the ...

Chronic inflammation can lead to abnormal cell growth and cancer. Around 90% of the Aymara people have an enriched variant of the gene, according to Song and her team, though it is not unique to ...

But will its people benefit? While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and sells salt crusted on the surface of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, the much more lucrative lithium is dissolved in ...

Rachel Nuwer is a freelance science writer based in Brooklyn. Each November, the Aymara people honor their special bond with the helpful spirits of the deceased Adding to their supervillain-esque ...

Colgate University found a statuette of a deity of prosperity within the Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections. The ceramic figurine, Iqiqu (in Aymara) or Ekeko (in Spanish), is a main figure in ...