Chaccu - Vicuña Ecotourism Festival and value-added tourist route

Chaccu is an ancestral activity inherited from the Inca empire that consists of herding, capturing live vicuñas with the aim of extracting their fine fiber and finally releasing them, without altering their population, behavior and reproduction capacity. This activity allows for the supervised shearing of live vicuñas.

To this end, the regional governments supervise the capture and shearing of vicunas. The Chaccu aims to value the vicuñas as a national resource and affirm customs, values and peasant practices of the high Andean communities linked to this South American camelid, which in turn constitutes a protection mechanism against poaching.