Alfredo Chavez is one of the few pioneer tour guides of the Peruvian Amazon. He has been a guide in the Peruvian Amazon for over 50 years. He was featured as a guide for Nigel Marven In Discovery Channel's documentary “Anacondas with Nigel Marven” (2003). He started to train as a shaman when he was 15 years old. His family is of the Cucama tribe; He was born and raised in the jungle. Alfredo was trained in shamanism by his uncle, José Baras, who was a respected and powerful shaman. Later, he trained and was an apprentice of 8 other maestros (masters).  He has been been practicing shamanism for 55 years and specializes in diagnostic shamanism. 

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