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4 days ago · Quechua, South American Indians living in the Andean highlands from Ecuador to Bolivia. They speak many regional varieties of Quechua, which was the language of the Inca empire (though it predates the Inca) and which later became the lingua franca of the Spanish and Indians throughout the Andes.
1 day ago · The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire ), called Tawantinsuyu by its subjects ( Quechua for the " Realm of the Four Parts " [a] ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [4] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco.
1 day ago · 38,160.87 ha. Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. [2] [3] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
- c. 1450; 573 years ago
- Cusco Region, Peru
- 1983 (7th session)
- Latin America and the Caribbean
May 7, 2024 · By Reuters. SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat...
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4 days ago · According to the Peruvian Constitution of 1993, Peru's official languages are Spanish and, in areas where they predominate, Quechua and other Indigenous languages. Spanish is spoken natively by 82.6% of the population, Quechua by 13.9%, and Aymara by 1.7%, while other languages are spoken by the remaining 1.8%.
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4 days ago · Free Peru. Dina Boluarte (born May 31, 1962, Chalhuanca, Peru) is a Peruvian politician who became the first woman president of Peru in December 2022, when Pres. Pedro Castillo was removed from office by Congress. Boluarte had been serving as Castillo’s first vice president.
May 7, 2024 · Ecuador, country of northwestern South America. Ecuador is one of the most environmentally diverse countries in the world, and it has contributed notably to the environmental sciences. The first scientific expedition to measure the circumference of Earth, led by Charles-Marie de La Condamine of France, was based in Ecuador. Moreover, research ...
