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The Inca Tambo of Zapahuira and its surroundings (Arica Highlands Chile)
One of my goals with the release of this material is related to the fulfillment of the necessary
social retribution in which researchers and intellectual workers must be engaged.
The Inca Tambo of Zapahuira, located in the area of Putre in the Arica Region, was an Inca
settlement that would have played a vital role in the functioning of the Inca road network of
the Lluta and Azapa Valleys.
It has also been suggested that this site would have played the role of an administrative center
for the presence of the Tawantinsuyo in the area. In addition to the two Inca kanchas that
characterize this site, there are important agricultural infrastructure works in the surroundings,
such as the numerous cultivation terraces that cover the nearby slopes and the traces of old
irrigation canals.
Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-shAkcfdn_c&t=59s
Miguel Fuentes
PhD Student (UCL Institute of Archaeology)