Manuel Quispe was a Q'ero elder and medicine man. He died on December 11, 2004, in Chua Chua.http://www.vanishingcultures.org/DonManuelQuispe.html vanishingcultures.org
Quispe was a mentor to many people] and taught them shamanic knowledge and rites, and the kuraq akulliq ("major coca chewer"),[1] the Andean Shamanic degrees.[2]