Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Colca y Volcanes de Andagua UNESCO Global Geopark

PE

The region’s gastronomy with its traditional jallpa is a journey in time to the way Indigenous populations survived the harshness of the region.Throughout the geopark there are traditional and mystical festivities such as: payments to the Pachamama, planting and harvesting water and Catholic masses that are accompanied by dances and bullfights.

CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationPE
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2019
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 658,243 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Colca y Volcanes de Andagua UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Colca y Volcanes de Andagua UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as The region’s gastronomy with its traditional jallpa is a journey in time to the way Indigenous populations survived the harshness of the region.Throughout the geopark there are traditional and mystical festivities such as: payments to the Pachamama, planting and harvesting water and Catholic masses that are accompanied by dances and bullfights. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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