September 23, 2006 • 4 mins
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This style of music comes from city of Ayacucho in Peru.
Ayacucho is the capital city of the Peruvian Province of Huamanga. It is famous for the great quantity of churches that it possesses and for its religious celebrations of Holy Week. As for its cultural identity, in it they are celebrated big events in commemoration to the holy week, among its better events the processions are, the contest of horses of step and the traditional one "jalatoro" that is something like Spanish confinement, the difference is that here the bulls get drunk with the horses of the morochucos.
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