Overview
- Thousands visited cemeteries across Salta, Lima and Ica, bringing flowers, photos, food and prayers to remember relatives.
- At Lima’s El Ángel and Surquillo cemeteries, families hired musicians for huaynos, rancheras and cumbias, with dancing and toasts at gravesides.
- Vendors did brisk business outside cemeteries, with Salta stalls selling flower wreaths, pastries and chicha, and a food fair operating by Virgen de Lourdes in Villa María del Triunfo.
- In Ica’s Saraja cemetery, flowers sold for 15–20 soles and musicians charged about 50 soles, while police provided security and wet sand replaced water for floral displays under dengue rules.
- Salta’s municipality closed streets and deployed traffic agents at the historic cemetery as families observed long-held traditions of remembrance and communal gathering.