Pozuzo
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Pozuzo is a village and district in the Oxapampa Province and Pasco Region of Peru. The village, at an elevation of 739 metres, is situated near the left bank of the Huancabamba River which is renamed
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Prusia and the Huancabamba River entering Pozuzo District.
The church in Prusia, south of Pozuzo.
Asháninka
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The Asháninka or Asháninca are an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in the regions of Junín, Pasco, Huánuco, and Ucayali in Peru, and in the State of Acre in Brazil. Their ancestral lands ar
Pozuzo
…established a mission at Pozuzo in 1712, but the colony and mission was abandoned or destroyed in the 1740s or 1750s in the Juan Santos Rebellion by the Asháninka ("Campa" is offensive) people of the area. The colony was reestablished and a bridge was constructed across the Pozuzo river about 1790. When explorer…
Asháninka
Asháninka men in house, Acre, 2010
Asháninka man with woven palm crown
Asháninka woman in Ucayali, Peru