Case file · Folklore / legend
Ekeko and the Alasitas fair, La Paz
Tradition dates La Paz's Alasitas fair, where people buy miniatures for the god of abundance Ekeko to bless, to 1781, after the siege of the city by Túpac Katari.
1781 CE · -16.50, -68.13 · status: legend
The account
The pot-bellied Ekeko is loaded with tiny houses, cars, money and diplomas; a pre-Columbian stone Ekeko taken to Switzerland was returned to Bolivia in 2014.