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Q'eswa Chaca
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Q’eswachaka: Último Puente Inka : La arquitectura inca alcanzó niveles de desarrollo que, aún hoy, sorprenden al mundo entero. Una muestra de este ingenio aún se mantiene en la región del Cusco. A tres horas de la ciudad, en la provincia de Canas, en el distrito de Quehue está ubicado el puente Q’eswachaka, declarado por la UNESCO como Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, esta creación incaica es utilizada para cruzar el Río Apurímac. Datos importantes: - La festividad donde se renueva el Q’eswachaka se lleva a cabo durante la segunda semana de junio. - El trenzado del ichu para el nuevo puente lo realizan solamente mujeres, supervisadas por un ‘chakaruwak’ o especialista. - Durante el periodo colonial, los puentes colgantes eran preferibles a los puentes de piedra, esto porque su resistencia a los terremotos era mayor. - Del 14 al 21 de Setiembre se realiza la festividad del ‘Señor de la Exaltación’, patrono de la zona
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QESWACHAKA V T1 : A documentary showing the construction of a grass bridge over the Apurimac river in Peru.
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Inka Road Symposium 08 - Inka Engineering: The Technology and Culture of Roads and Bridges : This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire, with a fascinating look at the material, political, economic, and religious structures that integrated more than one hundred Native nations and millions of people in the powerful Andean Empire known as the Tawantinsuyu. In this segment, John Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks on "Inka Engineering: The Technology and Culture of Roads and Bridges." John Ochsendorf is the Class of 1942 Professor of Architecture and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been researching the history and technology of Inka suspension bridges since his undergraduate thesis on the topic at Cornell, where he majored in structural engineering and minored in archaeology. He is a founding partner of Ochsendorf DeJong and Block LLC, a consulting firm specializing in historical structures. He has won numerous awards for research in structural engineering and architecture, including a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The symposium was recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on June 25-26, 2015.
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Queshuachaca
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El puente Q'eswachaka : El puente Q'eswachaka. Ingeniería y tradición andina.
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Q'eswa Chaca
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Q'eswa Chaca
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General Information

Name in local language: Q'ichwa chaka
Other name(s): Keshwa Chaca, Q'iswa Chaca, Keswachaka, Q'eshwachaka, Qeswachaka, Q'eswachaca, Q'eswachaka, Queshuachaca, Queswachaka
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: Simple (primitive) suspension bridge
Function / usage: Pedestrian bridge (footbridge)
Material: Natural fiber bridge

Location

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Coordinates: 14° 22' 52.74" S    71° 29' 2.51" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

width 1.2 m
span 28 m

Notes

Queshuachaca is a primitive bridge built of ropes made from ichu grass that spans the Apurimac River near Huinchiri in the Quehue district and is considered the last remaining Inca rope bridge. Even after the construction of a modern road bridge nearby the residents of the nearby village still rebuild the bridge every year as they have done for around 500 years. In June, around 700 people come together for the annual event of weaving the grass into ropes, which is done by the women, and then rebuilding the bridge from the freshly made ropes, which is done by the men. Once the bridge is finished, it is blessed by priests in a tradtitional ceremony and then a big feast is celebrated.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20027506
  • Published on:
    14/03/2007
  • Last updated on:
    14/09/2018
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