placesMercado de Brujas de GamarraMercado de Brujas de Gamarra
said mer-KA-do de BROO-has
also: Mercado de las Brujas, Lima · the Lima witches' market
placeThe AndesPeruconfidence mediumneeds checking
A row of esoteric stalls inside the Gamarra clothing district of La Victoria, Lima, along Avenida Aviación. Medicinal plants, bottled preparations in coloured glass, amulets, incense, black and white candles, and sprays sold for money. Readers work the same aisle, taking tarot and palm.
citedWhen
in trade as of October 2024; this project has read no founding date still carried cited
| Period | modern |
|---|---|
| How the date is known | ethnographic — somebody recorded it being used, on a date |
| Note | No published founding date was read. The record does not guess one. |
Years are stored astronomically — 1 CE is 1, 1 BCE is 0, 500 BCE is −499 — and printed the way a reader says them. How these dates are made.
The story
Gamarra is Lima's garment quarter — blocks of textile workshops and wholesalers — and the esoteric market sits inside it rather than apart from it. Daniela Ramos described the trade for Nexos, the Universidad de Lima's magazine, on 31 October 2024: herbalists, curanderos and readers working side by side, a reader named Timbaya among them, selling plants, potions, amulets and cleansings.
The prices in that account are worth recording with their date. Herbal remedies at 10 to 30 soles; a potion for attracting love at 30; a tarot reading from 10 up to 120; an energy cleansing at 1,200. All in Peruvian soles, in October 2024.
What customers ask for is not what the market's name implies. Ramos reports that money, not love, is the most common request — prosperity formulas outsell love potions at the stalls she stood at.
Inference — an esoteric market inside a garment wholesaling district is a market serving traders, not tourists. Ramos's account is of a working aisle in a working quarter; this project has read no visitor survey and does not claim one.
Now
Trading, on the account this project has read, which is dated October 2024. No day is marked open or closed below.
Where
Avenida Aviación, Gamarra, Lima, La Victoria · -12.0655, -77.0150 precision: street inference
hand-placed on the Gamarra Commercial Emporium, using Wikidata item Q1492863, coordinate location P625, queried 2026-09-16; the stalls sit inside that district on Avenida Aviación
Nobody has published days this project could read. That is not the same as closed.
What is on record about it
- A market you can walk — stalls of herbs, potions, amulets and readings in the Gamarra district, described with prices in October 2024 cited
What this is near
What names this one
Each in its own words, from its own page.
Where this came from
- Un paseo de fe y magia — Nexos, Universidad de Lima; by Daniela Ramos, 31 October 2024 read 2026-09-16
Elsewhere
Record updated 2026-09-16. This record as JSON. Every field carries its own provenance; the tier chips above say which.