Peruvian culture is a rich mixture of customs and ancestral traditions among them, the ingestion of clays: machu rumi, ch'aqo, ch'aqu, chaco, ch'ako, ch'aquo, chhacco, ch'akko, chachakko, or also p'asa according to synonymous denominations in Quechua language. This tradition is known in the Uru culture (typical of Lake Titicaca) as qhiqhiche and in the Aymara culture of Bolivia and northern Chile as upi.

Lehrerin der Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaften der Nationalen Universität des Altiplano Puno.