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The Qhapaq
Ñan
(English:
Great Inca Road, or Main Andean Road, and meaning "the beautiful
road") constituted the principal north-south highway of the Inca Empire
traveling 6,000 kilometers (3,700 mi) along the spine of the Andes. Situated
between 50 to 5,000 meters (16 to 16,000 ft.) above sea level, this monumental
road, from Pasto, Columbia to Rancagua, Chile, which could reach 20 meters (66 ft.) in width, connected populated areas,
administrative centers, agricultural and mining zones as well as ceremonial
centers and sacred spaces.
The eastern
route ran high in the puna grasslands and mountain valleys from Pasto, Columbia
to Mendoza, Argentina. The western route followed the coastal plain not
including in coastal deserts where it hugged the foothills. More than twenty
routes ran over the western mountains, while others traversed the eastern
cordillera in the mountains and lowlands. Some of these roads reach heights of
over 5,000 meters (16,000 ft) above sea level. The trails connected the regions
of the Inca empire from the northern provincial capital in Quito, Ecuador past
the southern provincial capital Inca Mapocho, known today as Santiago, Chile in the south. The Inca road system linked
together about 40,000 kilometers (25,000 mi) of roadway and provided access to
over 3,000,000 square kilometers (1,200,000 sq. mi) of territory.
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