Walipini, las ingeniosas huertas subterráneas "made in Bolivia" que pueden resistir al clima extremo del Altiplano

Costa Rica river-alliance reprint of BBC Mundo walipini investigation, including CIPCA critique that many Altiplano wallipinis were abandoned for labor/diet-tradition reasons and FAO forage walipini left dry ("no hay agua"). Reprints Gabriel Condo Oruro ~4000 m case; Aymara gloss "muy bueno/muy bien"; Peter Iseli non-ancestral origin; Ventilla 18 walipinis under Héctor Vélez. Includes how-to graphic: dig ≥1 m; stone drainage layer; adobe walls with door/window; roof ≥30°; tallest wall oriented south. Documents FAO 2012 forage walipini for Victoria Mamane (San Pedro de Totora) ~20×5 m later abandoned—river dried; "no hay agua"; youth migration to cities. Quotes CIPCA’s Gustavo Clavijo and Javier Argandoña: technically effective but many abandoned due to high dedication needs and lack of local vegetable-growing/eating tradition ("No es algo propio").

Evidence tier: news. Secondary reprint of BBC Mundo (credited); valuable for distribution and CIPCA abandonment quotes but not independent fieldwork.

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