Word: aymara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stumbly dirt road for three hours through the barren spaces of the altiplano, the 14,000-foot-high plateau that covers the western third of Bolivia. Above the tree line, this gaping wasteland is broken only by the occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts become more numerous, and further on there is a hint of the nearing metropolis in the frantic crowds of women and children who descend upon the bus at every stop trying to sell meager greasy pastries...