Manuel Quispe was a Q'ero elder and medicine man. He died on December 11, 2004, in Chua Chua. [1] [ unreliable source? ]
Quispe was a mentor to many people] and taught them shamanic knowledge and rites, and the kuraq akulliq ("major coca chewer"), [2] the Andean Shamanic degrees. [3] [ unreliable source? ]