The aguayo (possibly from awayu, Aymara for diaper and for a woven blanket to carry things on the back or to cover the back),Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara , a historical dictionary by Ludovico Bertonio (1612)Ministerio de Educación, Dirección National de Educación Bilingue Intercultural, Yatiqirinaka Aru Pirwa, Lima, 2005 (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)Sotero Ajacopa Pairumani, Léxico textil aymara y quechua desde los saberes locales (in Spanish) or also quepina (possibly from Quechua q'ipi bundle)Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (5-vowel-system): Q'epirina ... . Sinón: q'eperina, q'epina.Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) is a rectangular carrying cloth used in traditional communities in the Andes region of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Aymara and Quechua people use it to carry small children or various other items in it on their backs. It is similar to a lliklla and sometimes regarded as a synonym.
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See also Andean textiles Indigenous textile art of the Americas Poncho Rebozo, a similar piece of cloth used in Mexico
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