What South American nation's inhabitant's sometimes combat altitude sickness by drinking a coca leaf tea calle

Answer 1

Coca tea consumption is a common in many South American countries. Many indigenous tribes of the Andes mountain range also use the tea for medicinal and religious purposes[6][2].

The consumption of Coca tea, as well as chewing the leaves, increases the absorption of oxygen in blood, which helps combat altitude sickness, and has a marked digestive and carminative action[1].

Answer 2

The answer is Peru. The drink is called "mate de coca", which is a tea made of coca leafs. This is done in the Andes, but mostly done in Peru, and in parts of Bolivia.
They often also chew the leafs, which causes a greater effect, and this is called "chacchar"

Answer 3

My dad was a missionary in Bolivia, and he drank it there. There isn't any land less than 13K feet above sea level

Answer 4

Mostly of them are from the mountains of Peru, they all are Incas descendants.