Pausa, Peru

Pausa
Pausa
Town
	Pausa
	Coordinates: 15°16′47″S73°20′45″W / 15.27972°S 73.34583°W
Country	Peru
Region	Ayacucho
Province	Paucar del Sara Sara
District	Pausa
Government
• Mayor	José Felix Rosenthal Quispe
Elevation	2,524 m (8,281 ft)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)

Last updated July 30, 2025

Pausa (Quechua Pawsa an S-shaped curvilinear design^[1]) is a town in Central Peru, capital of the province Paucar del Sara Sara in the region Ayacucho.^[2]

References

↑ Grieder, Terence; Farmer, James D.; Hill, David V.; Stahl, Peter W.; Ubelaker, Douglas H. (2010-01-01). Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador. University of Texas Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-292-77912-9. The S-design is known first on Challuabamba pottery of the fourth millennium BC, where it may have had symbolism connected with female fertility (Doyon 1977:110), but it survives in modern Peru under the Quechua name pawsa, a fertility symbol often represented on women's shawls in what is called the shawl of the Earth Mother, her pawsa lliklla.
↑ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved June 13, 2008

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15°16′47″S73°20′45″W / 15.27972°S 73.34583°W / -15.27972; -73.34583

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[1] Grieder, Terence; Farmer, James D.; Hill, David V.; Stahl, Peter W.; Ubelaker, Douglas H. (2010-01-01). Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador. University of Texas Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-292-77912-9. The S-design is known first on Challuabamba pottery of the fourth millennium BC, where it may have had symbolism connected with female fertility (Doyon 1977:110), but it survives in modern Peru under the Quechua name pawsa, a fertility symbol often represented on women's shawls in what is called the shawl of the Earth Mother, her pawsa lliklla.

[2] (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved June 13, 2008

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