Guamúchil, Sinaloa.- One of the few places in Guamúchil where you can find the famous and almost extinct bules is in the markets, and especially in a hat business.
Eliseo Rojo Beltrán sells large bules, brought from some communities in the Évora region, but especially from Mocorito, where they are given seasonally, because they take time to dry and are ready to be sold, but for those people who do not know what the word bule refers to and what its uses are, here is a summary.
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According to its general characteristics, bule is a fruit of a vine called legenaria luncantan, of the variety of pumpkins. It is in various forms: lobular, tapered or very stretched. It is also known as guaje, tecomate or pumpo, and they have different uses depending on the region of the country, but “their original use is to carry water,” said the merchant Eliseo Rojo.
In the last decades it has acquired importance for the art world and the style called “arte en bule” emerged. That is why most of the customers in the Guamúchil markets are people who dedicate themselves to decorating them and turning them into a work of art, and in the state of Sinaloa it is the artisans and painters who seek the bules the most.
In Mr. Eliseo’s business, people from municipalities of the region and Los Mochis come to take several large ones. He says that they no longer look for them so much to use them to drink water because it is a custom that is already being lost.
Those who have not felt the fresh taste of drinking water from a jumate (a bule split in half) does not know the taste of the Sinaloan tradition.
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Grandparents and parents of the 1980s and 1990s grew up drinking water in jumate, either at grandmother’s house or on family visits in the ranches. This use is very old because it was inherited by indigenous cultures, and this way of drinking water can still be found in the mountains and valleys.
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