The prevailing heat yesterday in Santa Cruz It was not an impediment for the large Bolivian community that gathered in the Salamanca neighborhood to honor the Virgin of Urkupiña, patron saint of Bolivia’s National Integration. About twenty folk dance groups from Bolivia accompanied the Virgin of Urkupina in the procession that left the church of Nuestra Señora de Fátima at twelve noon, and that after more than an hour’s journey, returned after one in the afternoon to what, since last year, has been his official residence .
Yesterday he Neighborhood of salamancawith the collaboration of the La Arboleda Neighborhood Association, became for a few hours a replica of the city of keelcollonear Cochabamba, where Urkupiña is venerated.
Almost a thousand people gathered around the image to celebrate and honor it through the traditions that the Bolivian community has brought with it, and that the residents of Salamanca have known how to value and share with it.
The heat encouraged the neighbors to refresh the dance groups with the water from the hoses, whose costumes, as colorful as they were suffocating, did not take their toll. The day ended with a lunch for the entire community at El Centenero, although before that, in the church square, some of the typical products of Bolivian gastronomy could be tasted.
Fran Pallero
Fran Pallero
Fran Pallero
Fran Pallero
Fran Pallero
Fran Pallero
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