The following is a text that gathers one of the cultural traditions of the district of Andabamba, province of Acobamba and department of Huancavelica. This tradition, called Biga Wantuy, has its origin in the first decades of the last century when the people of this area fulfilled the obligation to provide food and fuel to the army stationed in Paucará (Huancavelica). In memory of one of these services, that of providing firewood, every year in the last week of September, the people of Andabamba celebrate the Biga Wantuy, which consists of carrying large cedar, walnut or alder beams over their shoulders from the Anco ravine, on the banks of the Mantaro River, to Andabamba. These beams are now used to build bridges, school roofs or any other work at the service of the community.Like all work for the common good, the Biga Wantuy is, above all, a festive work in which the people unleash al...

First of all, this study characterizes the structural system of the Quechua dialect spoken in the province of Santa (Ancash, Peru)), and focuses on the phonological level, the nominal and verbal morphology, as well as on aspects of its syntax (the structure of the phrase and nominal subordination). From the phonological and morphological features, it is established that this variety originates from the province of Huaylas and, that form there, it spreaded out towards the west up to its present location, in the communities in the districts of Jimbe and Moro. Secondly, we apply the methodology of sociolinguistics (through a survey) and that of ethnography of communication (the scientific procedure of the participating observation) in order to get a revealing diagnosis of the Quechua speaking community. Based on the application of this method, it is possible to determine that the variety in...