🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huánuco Pampa
Inca Late Horizon 1460–1532 CE · Inca (Wanka mitma)
Inca storehouse city 500 qollqas on Qhapaq Ñan, 1460–1532 CE.
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🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1471–1536 CE, abandoned post-1536) · Inca (Topa Inca – Diaguita / Calchaquí conquest)
Inca provincial capital (1470–1536) in Catamarca, the southernmost planned Inca city in the empire, founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui to govern Calchaquí valley Diaguita conquest: fully orthogonal Inca…
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Hydraulic works
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1470–1532 CE) · Inca (Topa Inca / Huayna Capac – Cañari conquest)
Extraordinary preserved 8 km upland paramo section of Inca Qhapaq Ñan (royal road) climbing 3600–4200 m across Azuay páramo linking Achupallas (Inca tambo) to Ingapirca (Hatun Cañar) via stone-paved…
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Inca Empire with antecedents Wari/Tiwanaku (~1000–1532 CE; Inca 1438–1532 CE) · Inca (with pre-Inca antecedents)
The backbone of Tawantinsuyu, Qhapaq Ñan runs 6,000 km along the Andean crest from Colombia to Chile, with east–west transversal roads totalling over 23,000 km.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1536 CE · Inca
Qhapaq Ñan tambo with 28-niche polygonal usnu platform of perfectly fitted octagonal andesite.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inca Late Horizon 1460–1532 CE · Inca (Wanka mitma)
Inca storehouse city 500 qollqas on Qhapaq Ñan, 1460–1532 CE.