Alasitas

Alasitas
Feria de la Alasita
View of Las Alasitas from the cable car of La Paz
Dates24 January
Frequencyannual
Location(s)La Paz
CountryBolivia
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Miniatures at the Alasitas Festival, Puno

The largest Alasitas fair (or Alacita, Alacitas, Alasita; Spanish: Feria de las Alasitas) is an annual month-long cultural event starting on 24 January in La Paz, Bolivia. It honours Ekeko, the Aymara god of abundance, and is noted for the giving of miniature items.[1] Other fiestas and ferias throughout Bolivia incorporate alasitas into religious observances: The Fiesta of the Virgin of Copacabana and the Fiesta of the Virgin of Urkupiña, for example.[2]

  1. ^ Paulette Dear (30 January 2015). "Alasitas: Bolivia's festival of miniatures". BBC. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  2. ^ Davis, Mary Whitman (2012). Let's Make a Deal: Using Alasitas to Bargain with the Pachamama (Master thesis). University of Illinois at Chicago. hdl:10027/9189.