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2,281 traditions so far, best known first. 12,321 more are on the list to be written. Filter by region, kind and meal.

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🇨🇱 ChileCurantokurantu A traditional earth oven feast of seafood, meat, and potatoes from Chiloé, ChileTable custom · Feasts and festival meals

🇬🇹 GuatemalaWorry dollMuñecas quitapenas Hand-made dolls from highland Guatemala that children tell their worries to at nightFolklore

🇵🇪 Peru and 5 moreMinka Shared unpaid work for community projects and for families who need many handsCeremony

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Curanto: Lin linao, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Worry doll: Leena, CC BY 3.0, source
Minka: Tobias Deml, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

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