Huanuco Pampa: Strategic administrative center of the Imperial State of the Incas

This article highlights how the Inca organized, planned strategic spaces for political, economic, religious, military and urban purposes. The great archaeological complex of Huanuco Pampa is one of the most prominent Imperial State administrative centers of the Incas. Spatial planning, in an extensi...

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Autor: Amat Olazával, Manuel Hernán
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/11748
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/sociales/article/view/11748
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Planning
Inca
Urban planning
Power
Strategic center
colcas
kallankas
ushnu.
Planificación
urbanismo
poder
centro estratégico
kallancas
ushnu
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Sumario:This article highlights how the Inca organized, planned strategic spaces for political, economic, religious, military and urban purposes. The great archaeological complex of Huanuco Pampa is one of the most prominent Imperial State administrative centers of the Incas. Spatial planning, in an extensive Andean plateau located in Huanuco region at 3800 meters, evidence his painstaking operation, which is performed rituals and religious ceremonies, the accumulation and redistribution of food stored in hundreds of depots colcas or food, building purposes military called kallankas and powerful means of asserting power and expansive hegemony