LOS PANATAGUAS

In addition to the fields, the Water Judges have other collaborators, these are the calls "Ringleaders", the Ringleaders have the mission to put the Panataguas, the Panataguas are dancers, who dance with special rates, forming columns of 15, 20 or but men, dance to the compass of the musica of the "box" and "pincullo", who are touched (executed) by the chirocos, which can be "atacallinos"; "aquinos"; "sanisidrinos" or "ñahuinos", this music has a very own, animated and jumping tonality.

The Panataguas dresses instead of silk and tapes coat entretejido multicolors; they wear masks of white man, of screen, cap and black or white trousers, on whose seam they hang, one to each side, flecos of pañolón of cachimira dark; they maintain in a hand a fine licor and the other "chicotillo" adorned of tapes; they dance giving rhythmic jumps and shaking "chicotillo".

Along with the Panataguas is amused dancing and making jokes, the denominated masks devils, which take to estrambóticas and original masks, with two or more horns, which can be of cow or sheep. They accompany these dancers, several children dressed San Miguel, known with the name of angels, dance with grace and agility, brandishing a sword in the hand, persecutes and humiliates to the devils.

All these personages execute their dances in the Main Seat and the streets; and they are directed by a "Official", elegant uniformed to usanza colonial.

LOS PANATAGUAS

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