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Aunque el hombre
primitivo en Amrica fue
probablemente el
responsable de la
exterminacin de un gran
nmero de enormes bestias del pleistoceno, tales como el mamut, los perezosos y una
variedad de camlidos, descendientes del mismo hombre en Amrica del Sur crearon
con el tiempo dos especies animales enteramente nuevas: la llama y la alpaca.
Una cuarta especia de camlido tambin habita los Andes: La esbelta y delicada
vicua, de unos 50 kg. Viviendo cerca del techo del mundo, o desde 3, 600 hasta 5,300
m de altura, las vicuas producen una lana que fue en su tiempo reservada
exclusivamente a la nobleza inca. Muy prximas a las llamas, alpacas y guanacos, las
vicuas pueden entrecruzarse con estas especies pero el resultado es una descendencia
estril. En el mundo existen actualmente unas 125,000 vicuas, 150,000 guanacos y
muchos millones de llamas y alpacas.
GOLD OF THE ANDES
Although early man in America was probably responsible for exterminating a large
number of great Pleistocene beasts such as mammoths, sloths and a variety of camels,
descendants of these same men in South America eventually created two entirely new
animal species; the llama and the alpaca. Both the llama and the alpaca are thought to be
carefully-bred descendants of the wild guanaco, a camel like ancestor that early hunter-
gatherers in the Andes learned to domesticate about seven thousand years ago.
Slowly, over a period of thousands of years, the guanaco was transformed into to new
animals that were designed to fulfill entirely different functions: the five-foot-tall, 300
pound llama emerged as a coarse-haired, beast of burden while the four-foot-tall, 160-
pound alpaca was specially bred in order to provide rich, lustrous wool. A fourth species
of camelid also inhabits the Andes: the slender, delicate, 110-pound vicua. Living near
the roof of the world, or from 11,800 to 17,000 feet in elevation, vicuas produce a
wool that was once reserved exclusively for the nobility among the Incas. Closely
related to llamas, alpacas and guanacos, vicuas can actually inter-breed with their
coustins, although by doing so they are unable to produce fertile offspring.
About 125,000 vicuas, 150,000 guanacos, and many millions of llamas and alpacas
currently live in the world today.
ALQA
Los pastores tienen varias categoras descriptivas para diferenciar a los animales por la
calidad de la lana, edad y el sexo, pero la nomenclatura ms rica se encuentra en el
mbito de las coloraciones.
ALQA
Shepherds have different categories for animals according to the quality of their wool,
age and gender, but the most varied classification is in the field of colours.
Nineteen different colours and hues are noted, from white to black in a continuum.
There is a terminology completely independent in order to design each model of
different colour, the main one is alqa which means a llama or alpaca with the
predominant pale hue which also has dark spots that do not cover hall of the body.
Twenty six different alqa models are differentiated, each one bearing a name. Such
system has an endless flexibility, because by taking both sexes, 19 colours and hues as
well as different qualities of wool and the terms for coloured models we would easily go
over twenty thousand descriptive combinations other than simple words, many more
than the average number of heads that each shepherd has.
LAS CONOPAS
Las conopas eran recipientes para hacer ofrendas sagradas, talladas en piedra que
tomaban la forma de llamas y alpacas. Estas ltimas se distinguan por la mayor
longitud de su pelo.
CONOPAS
Indefinity grey
Chocolate grey
Charcoal grey
Creamy
Silver grey
Medium grey
Dark grey
White
Streaky white
Biscuit
Vicua
Streaky vicua
Light fawn
Light brown
Brown marroon
Light piebald
Black
Dark grey
Dark brown
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