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Dia de la Candelaria leads today's complete edition for Bolivia.
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The Virgin of Candelaria is venerated across northern Chile, especially in the mining towns where faith is the only thing stronger than the desert. Processions carry her through streets lined with copihues and copper dust. The miners pray to her before every shift and she has never let them down.
Honored across the altiplano with dances, fireworks, and masses that blend Catholic and Aymara tradition. In Copacabana and small towns along Lake Titicaca, the procession carries the Virgin through streets carpeted in flower petals. The band plays all night and nobody complains about the volume.