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Excavation ongoing places tagged “puquios”

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🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works

Puquios de la Achirana

Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1450 CE · Inca (Quechua) imperial engineers

12 Inca puquios gallery aqueducts (17 km, 1450 CE) of the Achirana canal, Inca ashlar aqueduct feeding Ica Valley.

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🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works

Nazca Puquios Aqueducts

Nasca culture, Early Intermediate (~500 BCE – 600 CE; puquios ~300–600 CE) · Nasca (Nazca)

Unique Andean hydraulic analog to Persian qanats: 36 puquios, each a stone-lined infiltration gallery tapping sub-river gravel aquifers, ventilated by corkscrew stone spirals descending to the…