August 28, 2018 09:49 am | Updated 09:49 am IST - SACABA (Bolivia):
In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, 117-year-old Julia Flores Colque plays with "Chiquita," one of the family pet dogs, while sitting outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Flores Colque, who never married or had children, enjoys the company of her dogs, cats and rooster.
Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost 118 years.
In her long life, she has witnessed two world wars, revolutions in her native Bolivia and the transformation of her town of Sacaba from 3,000 people to a city of 175,000.
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