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Q'ero
'''Q'ero(spelled Q'iru''' in the official 3-vowel Quechua orthography) is a Quechuas community or ethnic group in the province of Paucartambo, in the Cusco Region of Peru.
The Q'ero became more widely known due to the 1955 ethnological expedition of Dr. Oscar Nunez del Prado of the National University of San Antonio Abad in Cuzco, after which the myth of the Inkarri was published for the first time. Nunez del Prado first met the Q'ero on a festival in Paucartambo.
Geography and history
The Q'ero live in one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Andes. Nevertheless, a hacienda ...
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