After obtaining the UNESCO declaration of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity for the guarania, the Minister of Culture, Adriana Ortiz, indicated that there are more expressions on the indicative list for the year 2025: they are the ñanduti and the ñai’upo.
Both were selected by the Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage of Paraguay, a working body between the public and private sectors led by the National Secretariat of Culture (SNC), for presentation.
The ñanduti was presented as the traditional practices of the cities of Itauguá, Guarambaré and the Tuyucuá company of Pirayú, the minister detailed in conversation with the Government spokesperson, Paula Carro.
The ñai’upo was presented as an urgent safeguard, for the conservation of this “pottery know-how of the artisan women of Tobatí and Itá who have the Paraguayan jug as their main element,” added the Minister of Culture.
She recalled that UNESCO accepts one application per country to be discussed in the sessions of the Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and that during 2025 the objective is to define the candidacy of a representative gastronomic expression of Paraguay, such as vori vori or chipa.
On December 3, guarania was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. It is the third Paraguayan expression to enter the list, after tereré and poha ñana in 2020 and poncho para’i from 60 lists in 2023. The designation took place during the 19th session of the UNESCO Committee that took place last week in Asunción.
