Lima, Oct. 16 (ANDINA).- Highway of an Empire: The Great Inca Road, a photo exhibition organized by the Consulate General of Peru in New York, has been opened at the American Museum of Natural History.
The IMAX Corridor of New York's American Museum of Natural History exhibited photos of storage edifications, forts, suspension bridges, as well as administrative and religious centers of the Inca Empire, which included current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Some 35 breathtaking photographs comprise Highway of an Empire: The Great Inca Road in the IMAX Corridor.
The exhibition will be open to the public for almost a year from October 17, 2009 to September 2010.
In his inaugural speech, the General Consul of Peru in this city Ricardo Morote said that Qhapaq Ñan in Quechua means “The Lord’s path” and it is known as the Great Inca Road.
The vast Inca Empire's administrative centers, fortresses and religious sites were linked from the capital city of Cuzco by 25,000 miles of roads that date back six centuries. This diverse network of trails, paved highways and woven suspension bridges, traversed by high officials and armies, stretched from Peru's Pacific coast to the Amazon rainforest.
On view are also extraordinary images of the round terraces of Moray, the knoll of Sondor (possibly a ritual location) and the Huascarán peak in the Cordillera Blanca. Also included in the presentation are spectacular pictures of Laguna de Los Condores, Andean farmers gathering a potato crop and maps of the Inca roads.
Photographs were provided by the National Institute of Culture (INC) and the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
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