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Festival del Chivo y Cordero a la Cruz in Tupiza
Tupiza's Festival del Chivo y Cordero a la Cruz celebrates a southern Bolivian ranching tradition: whole goat and lamb carcasses lashed to wooden crosses and roasted upright beside open coals for hours. Now well into its second decade running, the municipally organized event fills the plaza with smoking crosses, family cooking teams and market stalls, giving visitors a rare chance to taste a regional dish still cooked almost entirely by hand.
Tupiza sits in a dry, red-rock valley in southern Potosi, close enough to the Argentine border that its ranching culture borrows from both sides of the frontier, and each June the town turns that heritage into a single day of open-fire cooking.