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Stéphen Rostain , an archaeologist with France's National Center for Scientific Research, began excavations in the region during the 1990s. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Exploration of the sites accelerated after the government of Ecuador funded a LIDAR survey of the Upano Valley in 2015, facilitating the discovery of many more settlements than had been ...
Atahualpa, born in Quito according to Juan de Velasco and Garcilaso de la Vega, [22] [23] and in Cusco according to the most reliable chronicles, [24] [25] [26] [21] [27] was the favorite son of Huayna Capac and was very popular among the Inca armies stationed in the north. The brothers battled for six years, killing many men and weakening the ...
Santa Ana - La Florida archaeological site in Ecuador Santa Ana (La Florida) is an important archaeological site in the highlands of Ecuador , going back as early as 3,500 BC. It is located in the Palanda Canton , just to the north of its regional capital of es:Palanda , in the Zamora-Chinchipe Province of Ecuador.
It is bordered on the north by San Miguel and Putumayo rivers and on the east and south by Peru.Oriente has an area of about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km) and consists of little-explored and virtually unexploited tropical forest inhabited by a tiny fraction of the country's population, living mostly in small villages along the river courses.
Español: Mapa de la Región Amazónica del Ecuador. Verde intenso: Territorios amazónicos en provincias amazónicas. Verde medio: Territorios amazónicos en provincias no amazónicas. Verde pálido: Territorios no amazónicos en provincias amazónicas.
Zamora Chinchipe (Spanish pronunciation: [saˈmoɾa tʃinˈtʃipe]), Province of Zamora Chinchipe is a province of the Republic of Ecuador, located at the southeastern end of the Amazon Basin, which shares borders with the Ecuadorian provinces of Azuay and Morona Santiago to the north, Loja and Azuay to the west, and with Peru to the east and south.
Francisco Valdez (Ecuador) Quirino Olivera (Peru) [ 2 ] Montegrande is an archaeological site in the Cajamarca department of Jaén province in Jaén District , Peru , a spiral temple or enclosure built c. 3000 BCE, by a culture that overlapped the current border with Ecuador.
The Instituto de Arqueología Amazónica (IAA, Amazon Archaeology Institute) is a non-profit research center organisation affiliated to the National Institute of Culture of Peru. The present director is Dr. Federico Kauffmann Doig , and is operated in combination with the Center Studi Ricerche Ligabue (Italy), whose director is the ...