Sentences with phrase «coca leaves by»

Coca tea is a mild stimulant and similar in effect to the chewing of coca leaves by the native population.

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With a lack of state support, farmers interested in moving out of the coca trade are often exposed to FARC dissidents and other criminal groups, who have rushed to fill the vacuum left by demobilizing FARC units and want farmers to continue tending coca bushes.

Led by a shaman, it consists of laying out small amounts of native Andean cereals, grains and fruits, along with coca leaves, as offerings.

To avoid altitude sickness or altitude sickness is highly recommended acclimatization day or two depending on the person, enjoy light meal, go for a walk to speed acclimatization and finally as recommended by the agency, take a leaf coca tea which make you feel good and ready to start our adventure.

One wonders if Weber and Stritzler - Levine realised just how far off the map they would go when independent institutional curator José Roca, a native of Colombia who now lives in Bogotá, agreed to take on the project.1 Inspired by a show of Andean chuspas — bags made from coca leaves — that would run simultaneously in the BGC Focus Gallery, Roca envisioned immersive environments in which the paradoxes, polarities and points of contact between diverse artistic practices are explored through the tropes of the river and weaving.2 The works themselves provide their own context as they interact with each other and viewers, who are given a minimalist illustrated pamphlet as their only guide to what they will encounter in the gallery spaces.

The moth Eloria noyesi, known as «el gringo» by the locals, only lays its eggs on coca leaves; which the caterpillars then consume.