The Inca aqueducts refer to any of a series of aqueducts built by the Inca people. The Inca built such structures to increase arable land and provide...

and ancient Inca. The simplest aqueducts are small ditches cut into the earth. Much larger channels may be used in modern aqueducts. Aqueducts sometimes...

Chilean Inca Trail Aclla, the "chosen women" Amauta, Inca teachers Amazonas before the Inca Empire Anden, agricultural terrace Inca cuisine Inca aqueducts List...

82667°S 74.91028°W / -14.82667; -74.91028 The Cantalloc Aqueducts are a series of aqueducts located 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) west of the city of Nazca...

Less than a century prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, the Incas, from their homeland centered on the city of Cusco, united most Andean cultures...

(Quechua Qhapaq Yupanki Inka, "splendid accountant Inca") (c. 1320 – c. 1350) was the fifth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco (beginning around CE 1320)...

The Tawantinsuyu (Quechua: "land of the four quarters") or Inca Empire was a centralized bureaucracy. It drew upon the administrative forms and practices...

(Quechua pronunciation: [ˈmɪˌtʼa]) was mandatory service in the society of the Inca Empire. Its close relative, the regionally mandatory Minka is still in use...

and preserving technologies like the aqueducts of Cumbe Mayo (c. 1500 BCE) and the Nazca's underground aqueducts called Puquios (date uncertain), or the...

elevation is around 3,400 m (11,200 ft). The city was the capital of the Inca Empire until the 16th-century Spanish conquest. In 1983, Cusco was declared...

The Inca complex at Pisac is a large Incan complex of agricultural terraces, residences, guard posts, watchtowers and a ceremonial/religious centre located...

Inca Empire, located near Cusco, Peru. An alternate Spanish name is El Baño del Inca ("the bath of the Inca"). It consists of a series of aqueducts,...

the Late Intermediate joined the Inca Empire by 1493, but the period ends in 1532 because that marks the fall of the Inca Empire after the Spanish conquest...

runoff to occur through the outlet. The Inca people built on these, developing a system of canals, aqueducts, and puquios to direct water through dry...

Ingapirca (Kichwa: Inka Pirka, "Inca wall") is a town in Cañar Province, Ecuador, and the name of the older Inca ruins and archeological site nearby. These...

Kevin (2016). "Chapter 27 Puquios and Aqueducts in the Central Andes of South America". Underground Aqueducts Handbook. p. 465. Ted E Barker (October...

barter and shared labor. These reached their greatest development under the Inca Empire. Scholars have identified four distinct ecozones, at different elevations...

clean and free from effluent. Aqueducts also provided water for mining operations, milling, farms and gardens. Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone...

Aqueducts in the Central Andes of South America". Underground Aqueducts Handbook. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press: 465–467.. In Underground Aqueducts Handbook...

Tipón is a sprawling early fifteenth-century Inca archaeological site that is situated between 3,250 metres (10,660 ft) and 3,960 metres (12,990 ft) above...

people erroneously assume that this is because its original Inca name is "Talking River" (the Incas spoke a highland variety of Quechua, in which the word...

pumps). The Inca later expanded on these previously constructed aqueducts and built a more complex and large aqueduct system in the Inca Empire. The Mesoamerican...

culminated in the expansion of the Inca civilization and Inca Empire in the central Andes during the 15th century. The Incas formed this civilization through...

1476 AD – 1534 AD Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia: Inca Empire; Brazil: Cambeba; Colombia: Muisca Confederation Argentina: Diaguita...

century BC through the 7th century AD. They have left us their wonderful aqueducts that made good use of underground water, of rivers and rain, showing a...

The Inca used rope bridges, documented as early as 1615. It is not known when they were first made. Queshuachaca is considered the last remaining Inca rope...

around 1500 B.C.E, it comprises aqueducts, a grotto and petroglyphs; all within an area of rock formations. The aqueduct and the petroglyphs at Cumbemayo...

Quechua and have vibrant cultural traditions, some of which were part of the Inca Empire.[citation needed] Dozens of Peruvian cultures are also dispersed throughout...

the gate and pay a toll to the Inca. This theory suggests that the Inca also modified La Portada to serve as an aqueduct. This theory likely attempted...

designs in the desert whose purpose is unknown, and puquios, underground aqueducts for providing water for irrigation and domestic purposes in the arid environment...