News · 4 March 2025
Celebration of Atun Puncha «Great Day» in the Inga Resguardo of Blasiaku
On 4 March 2025 Noticias Putumayo published a 2-minute 39-second video of the celebration of the Atun Puncha, the «Great Day», at the Inga Indigenous Reservation of Blasiaku, in Villagarzón. The video description frames the celebration within the Bëtsknaté and the Atun Puncha, the Carnival of Forgiveness of the Inga and Kamëntsá Peoples of Putumayo, an ancestral tradition for reconciliation, healing the spirit and living in harmony with others and with nature. The video features the governor of the Cabildo Cachiacu Andaki, part of the Inga Indigenous Reservation of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi.
According to ACIMVIP's records, the 2025 Atun Puncha was celebrated between 1 and 4 March. In Villagarzón the Inga People experienced it with music, drums, flutes, dancers, women elders, the Indigenous Guard and the Inga, ACIMVIP and Colombian flags, and the communities prepared seed necklaces and drums in advance.

Originally published by Noticias Putumayo on March 4, 2025


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