Puquios (from Quechua pukyu meaning source, spring, or water well) are ancient systems of subterranean aqueducts which allow water to be transported over...
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Puquio (from Quechua: Pukyu, meaning "spring of water") is a town in Central Peru, South America. It is the capital of the province Lucanas in the region...
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Choquequirao Puquio (possibly from Quechua chuqi metal, every kind of precious metal / gold (<Aymara), k'iraw crip, cot, pukyu spring, well) is an archaeological...
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Puquio de Núñez is a small oasis and orchard in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The oasis is irrigated by an underground canal, a puquio tapping Pampa del...
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Puquio District is one of twenty-one districts of the Lucanas Province in Peru. One of the highest mountains in the district is Inka Pallanka at approximately...
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Nazca Lines, immense designs in the desert whose purpose is unknown, and puquios, underground aqueducts for providing water for irrigation and domestic...
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Huanca Sancos (Huanca Sancos) Huanta (Huanta) La Mar (San Miguel) Lucanas (Puquio) Parinacochas (Coracora) Paucar del Sara Sara (Pausa) Sucre (Querobamba)...
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Cheqollo Chichakuri Chipaw Marka Choquepuquio Choquequirao Choquequirao Puquio Churajón Chuya Cochabamba Cochapata Colcampata Collor Condorcaga Cota Coca...
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Nazca (category Localities irrigated by puquios)
additional underground aqueducts, named puquios, in a regional system that still functions today. The first puquios are believed to have been built by the...
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Desert. At the oasis of Puquio de Núñez the water of the aquifer is tapped by a system of underground aqueducts known as puquios. Located 1,187 meters above...
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the city. They are part of a system of aqueducts of the same type called puquios that were built by the pre-Inca civilization of Nazca about 1,500 years...
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Choquepuquio (redirect from Choque puquio)
las aguas subterráneas. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Choque Puquio". YouTube. http://amerique-latine.com/ala/fr/Choquepuquyo.html...
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irrigation channel or aqueduct specific to the Portuguese island of Madeira Puquios, underground water systems in Chile and Peru Roman aqueduct, water supply...
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part of his personality. He went to primary school in San Juan de Lucana, Puquio, and Abancay, and completed his secondary studies in Ica, Huancayo, and...
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part of the Latin-American indigenista movement. Set in the village of Puquio (in the Southern Sierra of Peru) it depicts the performance of a bullfight...
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Lucanas is the largest province in the Ayacucho Region in Peru. Its seat is Puquio. Some of the highest mountains of the province are Rasuwillka and Qarwarasu...
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Cheqollo Chichakuri Chipaw Marka Choquepuquio Choquequirao Choquequirao Puquio Churajón Chuya Cochabamba Cochapata Colcampata Collor Condorcaga Cota Coca...
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located in the Ayacucho Region, Lucanas Province, in the districts Chipao and Puquio. It is situated at a height of about 4,402 metres (14,442 ft). Lake Orconcocha...
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436 ft) high. It is situated in the Ayacucho Region, Lucanas Province, Puquio District. Quri Punchu lies southeast of two larger lakes named Apiñaqucha...
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Cheqollo Chichakuri Chipaw Marka Choquepuquio Choquequirao Choquequirao Puquio Churajón Chuya Cochabamba Cochapata Colcampata Collor Condorcaga Cota Coca...
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Around 1900, there were irrigation system of puquios spread through the oases of Atacama Desert. Puquios are known from the valleys of Azapa and Sibaya...
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soil erosion Qanat – Water management system using underground channels Puquios – Underground aqueducts in Peru and Chile Wadi – River valley, especially...
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supply similar to that of the qanats, called puquios, was developed. Most archaeologists believe that the puquios are indigenous and date to about 500 CE,...
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Cheqollo Chichakuri Chipaw Marka Choquepuquio Choquequirao Choquequirao Puquio Churajón Chuya Cochabamba Cochapata Colcampata Collor Condorcaga Cota Coca...
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Puquio Santa Rosa Protection Forest is a protected area in La Libertad, Peru, established on 31 January 1985. It covers an extension of 72.5 hectares (0...
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de la Unión, Huánuco Plaza de Toros de Guadalupe, Ica Plaza de Toros de Puquío, Ayacucho. Plaza de toros Real de San Carlos, Colonia del Sacramento (closed...
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Cheqollo Chichakuri Chipaw Marka Choquepuquio Choquequirao Choquequirao Puquio Churajón Chuya Cochabamba Cochapata Colcampata Collor Condorcaga Cota Coca...
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Peruvian town of Nazca, an ancient pre-Columbian system of aqueducts called Puquios were built and are still in use today. They were made of intricately placed...
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Cheqollo Chichakuri Chipaw Marka Choquepuquio Choquequirao Choquequirao Puquio Churajón Chuya Cochabamba Cochapata Colcampata Collor Condorcaga Cota Coca...
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Cheqollo Chichakuri Chipaw Marka Choquepuquio Choquequirao Choquequirao Puquio Churajón Chuya Cochabamba Cochapata Colcampata Collor Condorcaga Cota Coca...
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