Chumaichada

La Chumaichada is a typical dance from the Amazonas Region, Peru.{{cite book

|title=Cajamarca - Volume 5

|year=1958

|author= Nazario Chávez Aliaga

|isbn=

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PCIXAQAAMAAJ&q=Chumaichada+amazonas

|page=259}} It is particularly associated with Chachapoyas.

The music is likely of indigenous origin.{{cite book

|title=Los Chachapoya(s): moradores ancestrales de los Andes amazónicos peruanos, Volume 1

|year=2003

|author1= Federico Kauffmann Doig |author2=Giancarlo Ligabue

|isbn=9972971910

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWR-AAAAMAAJ&q=Chumaichada+chachapoyas

|page=}} but the choreography has a French origin, stemming from "Los lanceros" (The lancers) - a dance which was imported into Chachapoyas by the bishop of the diocese at that time, monsignor Emilio Lissón, of French origin.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

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