Markamaru...Lo Mejor

Musica andina chilena (Chilean Andean music) designates the Chilean cultivation of Andean highland styles and timbres—quena and zampoña/siku flutes, charango, guitar, bombo legüero/wankara—adapted to local repertoire and performance contexts. In Chile it acquired clear cultural weight with the rise of the Nueva Canción movement: ensembles popularized huaynos, trotes, tinkus and other Altiplano rhythms alongside socially engaged song. Labels and peñas helped circulate this sound nationally; by the late 1970s it reached mass audiences through groups such as Illapu, making pan‑Andean instruments and grooves a familiar part of Chile’s musical landscape.