in the streets surrounding the farmers' market, the "paraditas" (street markets) of local sellers offer handicraft products such as ponchos, alpaca textiles (carpets, sweaters, etc.); jewelry made of locally mined tin, copper, and silver; "cuarteados" (a typical dessert from the nearby town of caraz made by mixing manjarblanco and fruit cake); boxes of manjarblanco, butter, cheese, honey, smoked and salty hams, jerky (quechua charqui), etc.