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Vilcabamba is a village in the southern region of Ecuador, in Loja Province, about 45 km (28 mi) south of the city of Loja. The name ‘Vilcabamba’ apparently derives from the Quichua ‘huilco pamba’.
The city is commonly referred to as the 'musical capital of Ecuador.' There are also two universities, Universidad Tecnica Particular De Loja [4] and Universidad Nacional de Loja. [5] There is an important law school here as well. Just south of Loja (42 km) is Vilcabamba, which is known as the Valley of Longevity. [6]
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Vilcabamba or Espiritu Pampa is located near the Chontabamba River, a tributary of the Urubamba River. [9] The Inca capital has often been referred to as Vilcabamba the Old to distinguish it from the town of Vilcabamba the New, of Spanish origin and 35 kilometres (22 miles) in straight-line distance southwest of Old Vilcabamba. [10] [11]
Vilcabamba may refer to: Vilcabamba, Peru, capital and last stronghold of the Neo-Inca state from 1539 to 1572; Vilcabamba, Ecuador, town in the province of Loja in southern Ecuador; Vilcabamba District, La Convención, one of eleven districts of the La Convención Province in the Cusco Region in Peru
Most of the names in the range originate from Quechua.They used to be spelled according to a mainly Spanish-based orthography which is incompatible with the normalized spellings of these languages [citation needed] and Law 29735 which regulates the 'use, preservation, development, recovery, promotion and diffusion of the originary languages of Peru'.
Bingham's map of the Vilcabamba region. Vitcos (Rosaspata) and other important places are circled. The Vilcabama region in which Vitcos is located is extremely rugged, occupying the north-eastern slopes of the Andes and sloping down to the Amazon Basin. The terrain includes snow-covered mountains, forest, lowland jungle, and rivers running ...
Salcantay, [9] Salkantay or Sallqantay (in Quechua) is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range, part of the Peruvian Andes. It is located in the Cusco Region, about 60 km (40 mi) west-northwest of the city of Cusco. It is the 38th-highest peak in the Andes and the twelfth-highest in Peru.