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Projects Abroad Peru Director Discover Lost Inca City
Tim Dewinter, the program director of our overseas projects speaks of Peru their incredible recent discovery of an Inca settlement:
â € œThose who think that the frontiers of exploration have fallen to the depths of ocean or flown past Saturn's rings take heart and read ona € Vicente Lopez
Can you find a set € â € œforgottenâ city in the 21st century? Is it still possible? With modern satellite imagery surely all that has been found already? Well, the adventure shows that in Antisuyo, remote northern provinces of Cusco, do not remain the discoveries made by the intrepid and adventurous.
Since 1994, when I came to Peru, foot of the Andes has been one of my favorite pastimes and while working for UNICEF since 1997, I had the opportunity to combine work and pleasure. No Peruvian was a UNICEF consultant interest in leaving their families behind to go to remote areas of Cusco. I, on the other hand, was single and loved it, so basically, Monday Friday I went into this land reserved for the strongest under an incredibly blue sky, admiring the beauty and ruggedness of this range of mountains.
Several years later, working on projects abroad in the Sacred Valley, with my own family, had fewer opportunities to walk into the unknown. However, a software that runs projects abroad in Peru Inca Project is named and in 2005 he decided to combine the archaeological and community development activities exploration and hiking. Our volunteers added the ability to take walks in the less touristy parts of the Andes and enjoy the organization for them. Maps have always been a hidden source of rides for me and I studied whenever I could. I have many topographic maps of the region and carefully studied before a new hiking trail, so we knew what we were going to be against.
Americo My friends, Charles, Walter and I decided to explore a mountain range in the region known as the eyebrow of the jungle by the river in the district Lucumayo Huayopata. Our Team € ™ s field experience and friendship that make this a pleasant walk. I had a hunch that there will be any Inca structure until there was a strategic point of view and other small structures with known Inca than a few hours on foot, up the river Vilcanota.
We started the day early at 5 am, but were carried out by some local farmers who had used the road up the hill toward the clay to make bricks. Carrying 65 pound backpacks up the three days we had planned and it was hot and humid. Al noon, our luck turned, we stopped at a clearing and found a hunter, his name was Eloy. One of the golden rules of exploration is to listen to peasants, who know where everything is. Eloy was no exception to the rule.
He said he knew of a small wall and after lunch he shared with him, took us further up the hill. The forest was dense and difficult, backpacks and march were left behind with our machete in hand, throwing the whole green dense foliage blocking our way. Eloy showed us the wall, which turned out to be a room, mostly underground, covered with bushes and years of decay of forests. The amount of tangled growth is difficult to explain unless you have experienced. It was a house of Inca, of normal proportions, and with him another, and another. He immediately thanked the spirits of the Magic Mountain Apu, which means everything to the farmers and are directly linked to the Pacha Mama (Mother Earth).
Eloy was not surprised by our little ceremony, but was surprised that for years had been hunting in the woods, without having the no idea of its importance. He got nervous and told us that if these bumps on the forest floor were the walls, then he knew little more than bumps in the hills nearby. That was when it came to us, the more hits! This was not just a small settlement. We decided to go back and set up camp and take us to Eloy the other blows early the next day.
Sleep was difficult, as our adrenaline levels were high and 5 am the next morning we were ready. Eloy came to camp and went for what proved to be an incredible day of exploration. We walked through woods and found many tombs, circular, rectangular and square structures hidden under the thick forest floor. The remains were grown so strongly that are not yet sure of the extent of the ruins, but having found more than 40 structures in different locations of the peaks, with more than 2 miles between them, we were sure that played a major role in a of the largest networks of paved road and best ever built by the pre-industrial man, the Qhapaq Nan. The finding that must be connected to Machu Picchu wonderful, beautiful town in the cloud forest and the most popular site in Antisuyo, made even more exciting.
The solution looked through a very fertile and cultivated extensive glacial valley on one side and the other side was Vilcanota Valley. Machu Picchu was a day's walk upstream. Needless to say, what he found had enormous potential.
Were we on the verge of finding a missing link and the opening of a new Royal Inca Trail?
When he later returned Cusco was removed the temptation of going directly to local radio and television stations and decided to consult the National Institute of Culture (INC) in the first place. Perhaps they knew about the ruins, perhaps had more information about them, maybe they had a map already?
Projects Abroad had signed a formal agreement with the INC last year and our many contacts were able to investigate whether its site Register knew anything about this site, which didnâ € ™ t. The result was surprising, no one had reviewed this site, or the trouble to visit this strategic geographical feature. If the CNI was not aware of our results, we had to sort this out quickly, the letters were sent, all mentioning our willingness to share information and receive a visit from one of their research teams.
On 29 September 2006, two archaeologists to take us back to the area. Francisco Solis and Italo Oberti recognized archaeologists in the region and were eager to be part of these stages. They were amazed by our findings. It was confirmed that an Inca settlement was large, probably over 500 years, and noted stone and construction techniques with thatched highland Incas. They were surprised by the different types of structures and thanked us for contacting the so rapidly, as the results of many are kept secret by the INC. so that people can loot the place beforehand.
The Incas didnâ € ™ t as the lower altitudes with mosquitoes and diseases, heat and humidity, so maybe the Valley Lucumayo refrigerator, a wonderful food basket was prepared by the residents of our city renewed. The land provided the materials for construction and the fertile valley was there for agriculture, including production food for the inhabitants of Machu Picchu, only one foot daya sa ™ €!
What we did many others could have done and still can do. Must have studied numerous ruins, valleys and ridges unexplored, particularly at the edge of the forest, waiting to be discovered.
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