Customs

Ofrendas para el agua.

Atacameno festivals and ceremonies are imbued with a deep and intense interaction with nature. Main offerings are made to the Pachamama, the earth; the mountain spirits, tata-cerros; and to the water, tata-putarajni, as well as to the ancestors, tata-abuelos.

Traditional patterns of beliefs, knowledge and symbolism, based on mythological conceptions, ritually reenacted, last until today.

Main Atacameno festivities are:

The Carnival

The cleaning of irrigation canals (La limpia de canales),

The flowering of the livestock (El enfloramiento del ganado),

And the prehispanic ancestors cults, tata-abuelos (El culto a los tata abuelos o antepasados prehispánicos).