Tarabuco

Things to do

• Sunday market
• Traditional weavings and costumes
• Pujllay festival (March)

What to eat

• PucheroAn Andean meat-and-vegetable stew, served during carnival in Tarabuco and Sucre.
• ChichaFermented corn beer, slightly sour, served in gourds (tutumas). Look for chicherías marked with a white flag.

Also here

• Festivals · UNESCO Pujllay in TarabucoYampara communities come down to Tarabuco in festive dress, their spurs keeping time to the dance, to celebrate the harvest and the victory of 1816.
• Crafts and markets Yampara weaving from TarabucoFinely patterned cloth, often showing everyday life and animals, hand-woven on the loom. The Sunday market is the best place to find it.

How to get to Tarabuco

• Sucre Road (bus, car) · 1 h 30

  Tourist buses on Sunday mornings, or minibuses.

Photos of Tarabuco

More places in this region

• PotosíOnce the richest city in the world thanks to the silver of Cerro Rico. UNESCO-listed.
• Casa Nacional de Moneda (Potosí)The royal mint where Cerro Rico silver became coins, now Bolivia's great museum.
• Ojo del Inca (Tarapaya)A perfectly round warm-water lagoon, 30 minutes from Potosí.
• SucreThe “white city” and constitutional capital: the most beautiful colonial city in the country.
• CandelariaA Yampara village beyond Tarabuco: an old hacienda, weaving and rural tourism.
• ZudáñezA small valley town linked to the wars of independence, east of Sucre.
• Maragua CraterA giant syncline in reds and purples, with Jalq'a weaving villages.