Puno map and Puno Querido by William Luna

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Puno is a city in southeastern Peru, located on the shore of Lake Titicaca. It is known as the folkloric capital of Peru due to its wealth of artistic and cultural expressions, particularly dance.
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Valicha dance (Huayno) by Ritmos del Peru

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Valicha is a well known huayno from Cuzco. It was composed by Miguel Angel Hurtado in honor of Valicha Willca, a very beautiful Incan woman.
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Valicha dance (Huayno)

Valicha (Huayno) by Wayanay Inka

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Valicha is a well known huayno from Cuzco. It was composed by Miguel Angel Hurtado in honor of Valicha Willca, a very beautiful Incan woman.
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Valicha (Huayno) by Wayanay Inka

Valicha (Huayno), Cuzco, Choquequirao

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Valicha is a well known huayno from Cuzco. It was composed by Miguel Angel Hurtado in honor of Valicha Willca, a very beautiful Incan woman.
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Valicha (Huayno), Cuzco

Inca exhibition in Seoul, Korea

National Museum of Korea
The Inca civilization, which flourished for hundreds of years and left behind priceless archeological artifacts, will be revived in Seoul.

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Inca exhibition in Seoul, Korea

Inca exhibition in Brescia, Italy

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The Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia will be exploring Inca secrets in the new exhibition entitled “Inca in Brescia: Live the Legend - Origin and Mysteries of the Golden Civilization”, which runs from 4th December to June 27th next year.
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Inca exhibition in Brescia, Italy

Andean nations seek revival for ancient Inca tongue

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Andean nations seek revival for ancient Inca tongue

Yma Sumac, Index

Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range).
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Yma Sumac, Index

Yma Sumac, Wimoweh (Lion Sleeps Tonight), 1952

Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range).
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Yma Sumac, Wimoweh

Yma Sumac, Pachamama, Secret of the Incas

Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range).
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Yma Sumac, Pachamama, Secret of the Incas

Yma Sumac, Tumpa, Secret of the Incas

Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range).
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Yma Sumac, Tumpa, Secret of the Incas

Yma Sumac, Ataypura, Secret of the Incas

Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range).
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Yma Sumac, Ataypura, Secret of the Incas

Yma Sumac, The Castafiori Inca

Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range).
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Yma Sumac, The Castafiori Inca

Yma Sumac, Gopher Mambo

Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range).
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Inca Music: Yma Sumac, Gopher Mambo

Pre-Inca Civilizations - Video

Pre-Columbian is used especially often in the context of the great indigenous civilizations of the Americas, such as those of Mesoamerica (the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacano, the Zapotec, the Mixtec, the Aztec, and the Maya) and the Andes (Inca, Moche, Chibcha, Cañaris).
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Pre-Inca Civilizations

Maps and News: Jorge Chavez International Airport

Explore Lima, Peru through detailed Google satellite imagery.

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Killke Culture: Pre-Inca remains represent 40% of Machu Picchu

Killke Culture, Pre-Inca remains represent 40 percent of Machu Picchu Archaeological Park (Cusco), which hosts the well-known Inca citadel. The Killke culture, which developed between 1,000 and 1,400 A.C, belonged to the regional states of Cusco, presumably conquered by the Incas.

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Killke Culture in Machu Picchu

Killke Pottery, Interactive Mind Map

Killke and Killke-Related Pottery from Cuzco, Peru, in the Field Museum of Natural History by Brian S. Bauer and Charles Stanish.

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Killke Pottery, Interactive Mind Map

The Quipu Database Project, Interactive Mind Map

Quipus or khipus were recording devices used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andean region. Khipu is the word for "knot" in Cusco Quechua, the native Inca language.

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The Quipu Database Project

Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun)

The Inti Raymi ("Festival of the Sun") was a religious ceremony of the Inca Empire in honor of the god Inti.
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The Inti Raymi

Huaca Rajada-Sipan: New secrets revealed at ancient site

Click the figure below to view Tomb shows Peru’s Moche were Christ’s contemporaries.


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Huaca Rajada-Sipan

The Quipus Index

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization.

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The Quipus Index

The Quipus by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 1609

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization.

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The Quipus by Garcilaso de la Vega

The Quipus by Guaman Poma, 1615

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization.

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The Quipus by Guaman Poma

The Quipus, Recording Device

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization.

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The Quipus, Recording Device

Caral: the Oldest Quipu

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization.

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Caral: the Oldest Quipu

The Quipus of Puruchuco

These quipus were excavated at the site of Puruchuco, Peru, near Lima, in 1956.

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Puruchuco Quipu

The Quipus and Hiram Bingham

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization.

Click the figure below to see the Quipus and Hiram Bingham, the American Explorer who found Machu Picchu in 1911.



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The Quipus and Hiram Bingham

The Quipu - Video

The Quipu was a system of knotted cords used by the Incas and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization.

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The Quipu - Video

The Quipucamayocs, the accountants of the Inca Empire.

Quipucamayocs, the accountants of the Inca Empire created and deciphered the quipu knots.

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Royal commentaries of the Incas, Index

The Royal Commentaries contained two parts: the first about Inca life, and the second about the Spanish conquest of Peru, published in 1617.

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Index
Book I - Mind Map
Book II - Mind Map
Book III - Mind Map
Book IV - Mind Map
Book V - Mind Map
Book VI - Mind Map
Book VII - Mind Map
Book VIII - Mind Map
Book IX - Mind Map

Royal commentaries of the Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Word Cloud

The Royal Commentaries contained two parts: the first about Inca life, and the second about the Spanish conquest of Peru, published in 1617.

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Royal commentaries of the Incas

Mind Map based on 'The Incas' by Terence N. D'Altroy

The great empire of the Incas at its height encompassed an area of western South America comparable in size to the Roman Empire in Europe.

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'The Incas' by Terence N. D'Altroy, Interactive Mind Map

Ceramics of Ancient Peru, Interactive Mind Map

When Europeans first entered the Andean area in the early part of the sixteenth century, they encountered the Inca Empire, a vast and powerful political domain that incorporated the largest area in South America ever to have been brought under one ruler.

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Ceramics of Ancient Peru, Interactive Mind Map

Chan Chan: Peruvian archaeologists find 17 500-year-old wood statuettes

The largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan is an archaeological site located in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, five km east of Trujillo.

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Chan Chan: Peruvian archaeologists find 17 500-year-old wood statuettes

Chan Chan: Peru Travel, Video

The largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan is an archaeological site located in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, five km east of Trujillo.

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Chankillo, San Rafael District, Peru and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Fortified Temple of Chankillo and Golden Rectangles.

Proto-Quechua, Interactive Mind Map

Quechua is a Native American language family spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. The official language of the Inca empire was Quechua.

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Proto-Quechua, Interactive Mind Map

Quechua Language - Index

The official language of the Inca empire was Quechua.

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Quechua Language - Index

Quechua song: Chirapaq by Alborada with lyrics

The official language of the Inca empire was Quechua.

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Quechua language: Children Singing, Pampa de la Quinua, Ayacucho

The official language of the Inca empire was Quechua.

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Quechua language: Children Singing

Marcahuasi and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Marcahuasi and Golden Rectangles.

Machu Picchu Window 7 and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Machu Picchu window 7.

Machu Picchu Window 6 and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Machu Picchu window 6.

Machu Picchu Window 5 and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Machu Picchu window 5.

Machu Picchu Window 4 and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Machu Picchu window 4.

Machu Picchu window 3 and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Machu Picchu window 3.

Machu Picchu window 2 and Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Machu Picchu window 2.

Machu Picchu window Golden Rectangles

Golden Rectangle
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares.

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Machu Picchu window view.

Chan Chan: Sea Otters on the Wall, Kaleidoscope

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