One of the magical places for me in Cajamarca is Liuchocolpa, in the district of El Tambo, in Bambamarca, Hualgayoc. There, I feel, everything is beautiful: the mountains, the light, the stars at night, the calm and also its people.
It is one of the few places where there is still no drinking water and there is still a community. The word collpa means "place where mineral salts abound and where animals come to lick the earth", and I can imagine how, long ago, deer used to gather here in search of those salts. Community of everything and everyone.
For several years we have had a Rural Library in the Educational Institution of Liuchocolpa and, in September, it was our turn to visit it. We went in the company of a professor and some students from the Major National University of San Marcos (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) in Lima.
The students and teachers of the local elementary school received us with great affection and we spent pleasant moments talking, reading and playing. But the most beautiful thing was the end: the coordinator of the area, Humberto Huamán Lara, had prepared a little offering to the earth. What for us is almost a custom, for the children and their teachers was something amazing and everyone participated with great joy.
Thank you for making this sharing such a beautiful moment.
Rita Mocker
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