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A testimony of the importance of these compounds in Inca architecture is that the central part of the Inca capital of Cusco consisted of large kancha, including Qurikancha and the Inca palaces. [13] The best preserved examples of kancha are found at Ollantaytambo, an Inca settlement located along the Urubamba River. [14]
A kancha is an Inca rectangular or trapezoidal walled enclosure composed of single-room buildings that face onto a common open courtyard or inner patio in the middle of the enclosure. Kanchas are widespread in the Inca Empire and normally have only one entrance gate.
The kancha was an architectural feature found in many tambos throughout the Inca empire. [21] The kancha consists of a walled rectangular enclosure , which houses a number of smaller one-room structures, facing a courtyard. [ 21 ]
The replication throughout Andean South America of Inca architectural techniques, such as those employed at Coricancha, expressed the extent of Inca control over a vast geographic region. [18] Pachakutiq Inca Yupanqui rebuilt Cusco and the House of the Sun, enriching it with more oracles and edifices, and adding plates of fine gold. He provided ...
Inka Kancha (Quechua Inka Inca, kancha enclosure; corral, [2] "Inca enclosure" or "Inca corral", Hispanicized spelling Incacancha) is a 5,146-metre-high (16,883 ft) mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is situated in the Lima Region, Huarochiri Province, Chicla District. Inka Kancha lies near the Antikuna mountain pass, south of Sillaqaqa. [1] [3]
I. Inca architecture; Inca complex at Písac; Inca kancha; Inca road system; Inca Trail to Machu Picchu; Inca Uyo; Ingatambo; Inka Mach'ay, Peru; Inka Raqay, Apurímac
Qhapaq Kancha (Quechua qhapaq noble, principal, mighty, kancha corral, [1] "principal corral", hispanicized spelling Ccapac Cancha) is an archaeological site in Peru of the Inca period on top of a mountain of the same name. It is located in the Cusco Region, Calca Province, Coya District. [2]
Kancha language, or Kunja, a Papuan language of New Guinea; Kancha Ilaiah (born 1952), Indian political theorist; Kancha Cheena, primary antagonist in the 1990 Indian film Agneepath and its 2012 remake, portrayed by Danny Denzongpa and Sanjay Dutt respectively; Inca kancha, Inca walled enclosure composed of buildings that face onto a courtyard