Archaeologists have found the remains of an elite woman who was buried with a variety of remarkable grave goods.

Across the Andes—primarily in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, with smaller pockets in Columbia, Argentina and even the United States—some 8 to 10 million people speak Quechua. For Loayza, Quechua is more ...

The Lincoln-based band will perform in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at The Tassel in Holdrege. Kusi Taki specializes in music of the Andean cultures of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Chile. The name of the ...

Think South America and people picture Buenos Aires tango shows or Rio’s Copacabana sunsets. Those cities are stunning, ...

1. The official language of Ecuador is Spanish, but there are 13 native languages spoken in the country. Quechua is the main native language spoken by the indigenous people of Ecuador and the ...

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders ...

There, more than 13,000 feet above sea level, thousands of Quechua-speaking subsistence ... with other material to boost buyers’ profits, people familiar with the global copper trade said ...

Becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and Ecuador, too, are traditional sweat ... The word ayahuasca comes from the Quechua of Peru and translates to “vine of the soul” or “vine of the ...

Leonardo Padilla Sacha grew up in the town of Pampas in Huancavelica, Peru. The youngest of eight siblings, Sacha spoke ...

Ecuador has been plagued by gang violence in recent years Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Criminals dressed in fake military uniforms opened fire on spectators at a cockfight in rural Ecuador, killing 12 unarmed people and wounding several others, police in the violence-plagued South ...