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In Peru we have folk music and dance from the
highlands, from the Andean Valleys, from the desert coast.
We have Creole music on the coast, based on guitars, Andean
music and dance in the mountains -with the world famous panpipes-Afro
Peruvian music, which is a mixture of Latin American and African
beat.
In terms of religion, the blend between pre
Hispanic religions and Catholicism is very much alive: people
celebrate with fervour the religious and natural cycles of
their age-old calendar. Most religious celebrations have a
pagan undertone: the shrines to the Virgin are often the same
as those to the Mother Earth and those to Christ are often
related to mountain worship
.or Apus as they are called.
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