Discovery of the grave of the Lord Wari forces us to rethink the history of Peru...

">Conexión Alternativa: EL HALLAZGO DE LA TUMBA DEL SEÑOR WARI OBLIGARIA A REPENSAR LA HISTORIA DEL PERU
Discovery of the grave of the Lord Wari forces us to rethink the history of Peru...

The grave of Lord of Wari found near Macchu Picchu (near Vilacabamba)

One of the most important findings since the discovery of the Senor de Sipan site in northern Peru.

Un importante descubrimiento que podría cambiar parte de la Historia Inca se hizo público. Se trata de la ciudadela del Señor Principal de Wari en el sector de Vilcabamba, en la provincia de La Convención en Cusco.

El director del Instituto Nacional de Cultura de Cusco, arquitecto Juan Julio García Rivas, confir

mó en exclusiva a RPP Noticias, el hallazgo arquitectónico de la tumba del Señor Principal de Wari que contiene incrustaciones de oro laminado prehispánico, así como bienes de plata, oro y cerámica con iconografía Wari y Nasca.

Se trata de la ciudadela del Señor Principal de Wari en el sector de Vilcabamba ubicada en la provincia de La Convención en Cusco.

Este importante descubrimiento que cambiará parte de la Historia Inca se hará público hoy ante la presencia de la directora general de la Unesco, Irina Bokova.“Este hallazgo está a la altura del Señor de Sipán y cambiará parte de la Historia Inca y de la zona”, refirió García Rivas.

Los trabajos de investigación se encuentran en la primera etapa de análisis de laboratorio y apenas concluya la temporada de lluvias se continuará con la investigación, concluyó el funcionario.

Incas in Santiago, Chile - The Huaca de Chena

The Chilean capital, Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, as it was called in 1541 by the Spanish founders, has on its south side an important pre-hispanic monument which until now was thought to be just a fortress (pucara) built on the hill overlooking the entrance to the Central Valley. Recent research carried out on a small hill called Cucara to the south of the Chena hills, shows an importante Inca urban development in the area, says Patricio Bustamante D., chilean archeologist. The comonly known as Pucará or fortress of Chena (Stehberg, R. 1976) would have served as an important ceremonial center and astronomical observation. Its feline form resembling a puma, similar to the layout of the capital city of the Cusco, is one of its most distinctive features. Other elements of its location, geographical orientation, cultural and urban context, and its coorelation to the celestial bodies, are pointing to the fact that the place was a "huaca", points out the archeologist. Huacas, according to Father Bernabe Cobo (1653) were "all of the sacred places designated for prayers and sacrifices, as well as for all of the gods and idols that were worshiped in these places".

Qhapah Nan, declaration in front of the UNESCO

Meeting of the International Technical Secretaries of the” Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System” - project nomination to the World Heritage list of UNESCO Paris 16-18 February of 2011.
Program Qhapaq Ñan has its origin in the year 2001, when the government of Peru has began to promote the multilateral postulation of the “Inca Trail” as a World Heritage site to UNESCO. The initiative was seconded by the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Chile, which soon after have begun coordinating the program with the support from UNESCO and others. The February 2011 meetings were initiated by Mr Francesco Bandarin, Director of Culture and of the Center of the World Heritage at UNESCO, and Chile was represented and its work has been coordinated by the Executive Secretary of the Council of National Monuments (SE-CMN) Mr. Oscar Acuña.
The term “Qhapaq Ñan”, which in quechua means "Main road", is used to refer to the extensive road network which enabled the expansion of the Tawantinsuyu (Inca State) into the territories which now correspond to the Andean nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile. It covers an distance of approx. 6,000 km in the North - South direction and encompasses over 33,000 km of built-in road and trail infrastructure.
Known in Peru as “Great Inca Road” and in other countries as “an Andean Road”, Qhapaq Ñan is articulated in a form of a network of roads and infrastructure built more than two thousand years preceding the Inca’s forceful incorporation of various Andean cultures and connecting their production, administrative and ceremonial centers. Qhapaq Ñan has formed a network at the continental level which expresses most essentially the organizational spirit linking cultures inextricably associated with the most extreme environments of the planet.
The international project of Qhapaq Ñan is the most relevant in the field of cultural heritage of the region; constituting also a comprehensive, exemplary initiative and great vision, not only to protect the heritage of outstanding universal value, but also to achieve a sustainable social development preferably to the benefit of the indigenous communities. This heritage project also has a strategic factor which without precedent, is capable of strengthening relations between the involved countries.

Qhapaq Ñan, the Grand Inca road - a precolumbian road system in the South America...

Little known before the Beatles,  the international tourism has discovered it in a form of the “Inca Trail”, a small section of the road leading to Macchu Picchu from the 88 km stop from Cuzco. It  has been gradually given much more attention outside and in the neighboring countries when in 2001 Peru  proposed the international project of research and conservation of this system of approximately 40,000 km of roads and paths. It is so extensive that only the Silk Road of Asia could be compared to its size.

Peru along with Chile,  Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Colombia have decided to work together to register the Inca Road or Qhapaq Ñan (in Quechua language means "Main road") as the UNESCOWorld Heritage site. It is the first Andean road system which was being given much attention by the archeological and historian communities since the beginning of the 20th century (Regal, Niemeyer, Rostworowski, Rowe, Hyslop, Zuidema, Nunez).

The commitment to continue funding a joint study and apply for the UNESCO status has been signed in December 2010 in Buenos Aires by the six countries’ presidents. The UNESCO World Heritage Centre (February 2011) was updated by the heads of the countries' committees on the progress of the project to be declared as the World Heritage Site. Chile demonstrated its preparedness, and in December 2011 has begun the process of the State funding for the project. It will be one of the first Cultural Itinerary and integration projecs of this kind in the World. The declaration is expected to be completed in 2014.

          Map of Qhapaq Nan entre Lima and Callao

                                                       from the Alberto Regal´s article in the 1954´s El Comercio, Peru.