那天去厄瓜多尔中部的Quilotoa火山湖（会有另贴展示这个风景绝美的地方），在旁边的同名小镇上遇到照片中这些Kichwa原住民。我用破烂的西班牙语跟她们打招呼问好，她们腼腆地笑着回应。然后她们几个人聊天的时候，我突然意识到人家是说自己方言而不是西班牙语的。她们的土话叫Kichwa/Quichua, 是南美原住民语系Quechua的一个分支。
Quechua是安第斯山区的土著居民，主要居住在秘鲁，玻利维亚和厄瓜多尔，在哥伦比亚，智利和阿根廷的山区也有分布。
Quilotoa这里的山民是古印加国民的后代，是厄瓜多尔十三个原住民聚居区中人口最多的一个。插播一句：厄瓜多尔这个国家麻雀虽小却五脏俱全，从西到东，海滩、高原、丛林都有，迥异的地理环境自然会孕育多样的原住民文化。
在这寒冷的海拔近四千米的高原地区，原住民女性们都戴着传统的毡帽，穿着色彩鲜艳的羊毛衫或外套，暖和的大披肩，下身继续色彩鲜艳的中长裙，厚厚的长筒袜，脚穿黑皮鞋。我当时去还是初夏时节，穿着一件外套爬到山顶，已经被火山湖边缘的凛冽寒风吹得瑟瑟发抖，不禁羡慕起她们保暖的传统装束来。
可能你会觉得她们衣服的颜色搭配有些神奇，😅 但在南美这片神奇的土地上，这却再平常不过了。等以后稍微安定下来，我会陆续写些神奇的南美故事，敬请关注。
I met these #Kichwa women in the small village of #Quilotoa in the Ecuadorean #Andes, next to a huge volcanic crater lake (I will show you this spectacular caldera in details in another post).
These #indigenous people are descendants of the Incas, the largest of the 13 indigenous communities in #Ecuador. They speak Kichwa/Quichua, which is an Ecuador variety of #Quechuan languages, a native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andean mountainous regions.
From the photo, you can see their traditional clothing: durable felt hats, wool jackets, bright synthetic sweaters, shawls held over the shoulder, vibrant skirts, long stockings and black leather shoes. All these keep them warm high up in the Andes mountains, at an elevation of almost 4000 meters. I wish I also had a hat and a shawl, when I reached the summit by the crater lake, shievering in the cold wind like a leaf. ;)
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