Newly Discovered Inca Road in Arequipa, Peru

Archaeologists investigating the Inca road network, in the Arequipa province of Caraveli have announced the discovery of an overlooked segment along the coast. The researchers who made the discovery are working together on the Qhapaq Ñan project, which combines cultural and archaeological studies to investigate the network of Inca roads. (Qhapaq Ñan was the name of the road network during Inca times; it's Quechua for Royal Road.) They were searching for the missing link explaining how it was possible that the Inca elite in Cusco ate fresh saltwater fish regularly, as the early chronicles relate. As the former imperial capital of Cusco is nestled in the high Andes, with no nearby sea, the question was: along what route was the fish delivered?

The entirety of the Inca empire was known as Tahuantinsuyo, wherein each region was a suyo. Arequipa falls into the Konsituyo region. According to project member Guido Casaverde, the road is believed to have connected the Acari district's Tambo Viejo administrative center to the Atico's district El Tambo Inca site.

Archaeologists investigating the Inca road network, in the Arequipa province of Caraveli have announced the discovery of an overlooked segment along the coast. The researchers who made the discovery are working together on the Qhapaq Ñan project, which combines cultural and archaeological studies to investigate the network of Inca roads. (Qhapaq Ñan was the name of the road network during Inca times; it's Quechua for Royal Road.) They were searching for the missing link explaining how it was possible that the Inca elite in Cusco ate fresh saltwater fish regularly, as the early chronicles relate. As the former imperial capital of Cusco is nestled in the high Andes, with no nearby sea, the question was: along what route was the fish delivered?

The entirety of the Inca empire was known as Tahuantinsuyo, wherein each region was a suyo. Arequipa falls into the Konsituyo region. According to project member Guido Casaverde, the road is believed to have connected the Acari district's Tambo Viejo administrative center to the Atico's district El Tambo Inca site.