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A bombilla (pronounced bawm-bee-yah) is a tool used to drink mate. It has a specific design that prevents accidentally drinking the yerba mate leaves and stems as well as burning with hot water while drinking.

What does ‘bombilla’ mean?

Although some cultures, such as the Kaingang people or the Ch’unchu tribe drunk mate without a bombilla, the use of this tool is as old as the drink itself.

Guaraní people called tacuapí what we now call bombilla, but also bamboo canes, which were the material they used to fabricate bombillas. To make a bombilla, they would, firstly, choose a thin rode of approximately 5mm diameter.

Secondly, they would cut it from under the cane’s knot to around 20 cm long. The knot was then perforated multiple times, allowing water to go through. Another technique included to cut in between the knots, and then to use a small, hollow fruit, which was perforated and adjusted to a cane.

A third was to create a small net with vegetal fibers that it was then put to the cane.
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