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Prehispanic Roads - Capac Ñan

Les noms des biens figurent dans la langue dans laquelle les Etats parties les ont soumis.

Bolivie (Amérique latine et Caraïbes)

Date de soumission : 01/07/2003
Critères: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
Catégorie : Culturel
Soumission préparée par :
Viceministerio de Cultura, Ministerio de Desarrollo Económico de Bolivia Palacio Chico
Coordonnées
Western part of Bolivia. It runs through several Andean countries connecting several villages.
Ref.: 1818

Description

Several important cultures developed in what today is Bolivian territory. Some examples are the Wankarani, the Mollo and the Chiripa, amongst others, the highlight of them being Tiwanaku, which in its expansion phase included some other minor cultures, such as the Chichas, the Charcas, the Carangas, the Quillcas, the Soras and the Urus.

Tiwanaku (WHS), one of the most important cultures on Bolivian soil, was one of the main empires that in its time reached its maximum height, its influence irradiating in a large area of not only Bolivian land but in a continental scope, occupying several ecological levels: on the north side, what is now Peruvian territory, on the south the north of Argentina; toward the east the low and tropical lands of the Amazonian basin and on the west reaching the shores of the Pacific Ocean, today Chile.

After the fall of Tiwanaku, part of the road system continued to be used by the Aymara chiefdoms and other minor cultures. When the Incas arrived, toward the end of the 12th Century, beginning of the 13th, they re-used this road system, forming what was in that time called Royal Road, or Capac Ñan, which extends for about 25,000 kilometers, in what is today part of Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.