Traditionally dressed Quechua man in small village in the Sacred Valley Peru
Traditionally dressed Quechua man in small village in the Sacred Valley Peru. Ollantaytambo is a town and an Inca archaeological site in southern Peru some 60 kilometers northwest of the city of Cusco. It is located at an altitude of 2,792 meters above sea level in the district of Ollantaytambo, province of Urubamba, Cusco region. During the Inca Empire, Ollantaytambo was the royal estate of Emperor Pachacuti who conquered the region, built the town and a ceremonial center. At the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru it served as a stronghold for Manco Inca Yupanqui, leader of the Inca resistance. Nowadays it is an important tourist attraction on account of its Inca buildings and as one of the most common starting points for the three-day, four-night hike known as the Inca Trail. Quechuas is the term used for several ethnic groups in South America that use a Quechua language (Southern Quechua mainly), belonging to several ethnic groups in South America, above all in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. The Quechuas of Ecuador call themselves - as well as their language Kichwa - Kichwas or Quichuas. The Kichwa-speaking group of Colombia are the Ingas. Some (historic) Quechua peoples: * Inca * Chancas (in Huancavelica, Ayacucho y Apurímac) * Huancas (in Junín; spoke Quechua before the Incas did) * Cañaris (in Ecuador; adopted the Quechua language from the Incas) Quechua (Runa Simi) is a Native American language of South America. It was already widely spoken across the Central Andes long before the time of the Incas, who established it as the official language of administration for their Empire, and is still spoken today in various regional forms (the so-called ‘dialects’) by some 10 million people through much of South America, including Peru, south-western and central Bolivia, southern Colombia and Ecuador, north-western Argentina and northern Chile. It is the most widely spoken language of the indigenous peoples of the America
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Location: Ollantaytambo, Sacred Valley- Peru (South America)
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