face ( leather ) pachay ( clothing ) leather and apparel that is what they were in simple terms the lumberjacks of entrerios that covered the parana delta at one time. they were flaquitos and malnourished that skin carapachay called them. Hence that when some people today in day shift yerba mate you get the sticks of the palau yerba. This action they call carapachay, but the true origin is from the parana.gracias by asking loggers brought me to my memory many things in my niñes.