El Shincal de Quimivil
Located in the province of Catamarca, it is one of the most important and emblematic archaeological sites evidencing the Inca presence in northwestern Argentina.
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A section of the Qhapaq Ñan or Inca Trail crosses the Shincal from northeast to southwest.
The Qhapaq Ñan is the Andean road system, built by the Incas from pre-Inca structures, whose branches cross six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, covering a total of approximately 30,000 kilometers. The road network connected Cusco, the Inca capital of Tawantinsuyu with the different regions annexed as part of the Inca expansion process. It constituted also a means of political, administrative, economic and cultural integration. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2014.
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Located in the province of Catamarca, it is one of the most important and emblematic archaeological sites evidencing the Inca presence in northwestern Argentina.
The Quechua name of the Inca Empire, it means "the four regions together". The 4 regions or provinces are: Chinchaysuyu (northwest, territories of today Peru, Ecuador, and part of Colombia), Antisuyu (notheast, upper Amazon), Contisuyu (southwest of the capital Cuzco), Collasuyu (southern Peru, parts of Bolivia, Chile and northwestern Argentina). The Inca Empire existed from 1438 until the conquest by the Spanish and the death of Atahualpa, the last Inca, in 1533. From the 1470s until the end of the empire, the Inca ruled northwestern Argentina.