DOI: 10.17151/rasv.2024.26.2.11
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Santos Suárez, L. M. (2024). Between the Guáitara and the Chota rivers: definitions of Guaico in the Andean region of Nariño. Revista de Antropología Y Sociología : Virajes, 26(2), 252–284. https://doi.org/10.17151/rasv.2024.26.2.11

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Laura Milena Santos Suárez
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
lmsantoss@unal.edu.co
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1047-2476
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Abstract

This article discusses and interprets the concept of guaico -a notion proper to the Andean region of the Colombian department of Nariño. The question about what is contained in guaicos – not only as references to geographical spaces in the lowlands with hot and humid weather – depends on a set of factors that traverse the waters flowing towards the Colombian frontier from the Carchi province, in Ecuador, and proceed to the fast-flowing canyon at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Las Lajas, to finally disembogue in the Pacific Ocean through the Patía river. All throughout its course, the guaico consubstantially flows with the Guáitara river. The factors that influence our interpretation of what guaico encompasses, are: 1) an iconographic reading of the religious narrative submerged in the most popular and visited spot at the Guáitara river ⎯the Sanctuary of Las Lajas⎯; 2) the depiction of the Andean spiritual world below, the Quechuan Ujku Pacha; and, finally, 3) the substance of the ánimo, a concept that entails different sorts of mental and bodily moods and inhabits the guaico and the condition of someone or something being guaicoso.

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