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Submitted by davidmorgan on Saturday, 12 January 2013  Page Views: 4715

Multi-periodSite Name: Inca-Caranqui
Country: Ecuador
NOTE: This site is 106.163 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Ibarra
Latitude: 0.322352N  Longitude: 78.121452W
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Inca-Caranqui submitted by Andy B : The Temple at Inca-Caranqui. Image copyright the Inca-Caranqui Archaeological Project at Wayne State University. Site in Ecuador (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Inca Settlement in Ecuador. The archaeological site of Inca-Caranqui is located near the foot of Mt. Imbabura in the northern highlands of Ecuador. Situated at the very northern edge of Tawantinsuyu, Inca-Caranqui likely represents the last major imperial building event prior to the Spanish invasion in 1532.

Ethnohistoric accounts regarding who ordered the construction of this site and why are conflicting, with some attributing it to the ruler Huayna Capac for commemorative purposes, and others to his son, Atahualpa, in preparation for his coronation as the new Sapa Inca.

Source: Wayne State University excavation website which has lots more information on the site.

Note: The Water Temple of Inca-Caranqui - was hydraulic engineering the key to winning the hearts and minds of a conquered people?
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The Water Temple of Inca-Caranqui by davidmorgan on Thursday, 03 January 2013
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Was hydraulic engineering the key to winning the hearts and minds of a conquered people?

Archaeologists are uncovering remnants of a large pool constructed in Ecuador by the Inca during the 15th century. Its elaborate series of canals may have been used to collect water from as far away as Imbabura Volcano.

Tamara Bray of Wayne State University walks through a municipal lot in a suburb of the colonial city of Ibarra, in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador. At 7,550 feet on the northern slope of Imbabura Volcano, the equatorial sun has an intensity that burns through the occasional cool breeze. Chickens peck in the dirt and we can hear children playing at a school nearby. As we walk through the lot, which is now an archaeological site called Inca-Caranqui, Bray explains that the local people knew this was an ancient settlement long before the first archaeological surveys in the late 1990s. Just across the street stand two walls—one 130 feet long and the other 165—that were built by the Inca. One wall has traces of three trapezoidal doorways with remnants of plaster and pigments.

Ecuadorian archaeologist José Echeverría leads us through the site, down a winding path that follows the low outlines of partially excavated walls. He explains that, in 2006, he was helping clear debris left over from a brickmaking operation when he uncovered some Inca masonry at the east end of the site, which turned out to be part of a large ceremonial pool about 33 by 55 feet in size. It was dug to a depth of four to five feet below the modern ground level and was surrounded by walls about three feet high. The walls and floor were made of finely cut and fitted stone.

Two types of canals were used to bring water from the surrounding area into the site of Inca-Caranqui.
Bray and Echeverría believe the pool may date to a period in the early 1500s, shortly after the Inca ruler Huayna Capac had concluded a 10-year war of conquest against the local people, the Caranqui. Legend has it that Huayna Capac had every adult male Caranqui executed. Their bodies were thrown into a lake known today as Yahuarcocha, or the “Lake of Blood,” on Ibarra’s northeast edge. Spanish chronicler Pedro Cieza de León estimated the conflict left 20,000 to 50,000 Caranqui dead.

Bray and EcheverrĂ­a think that in the aftermath of that bloodshed, the Inca built the pool as part of a construction project that was meant to demonstrate their power to their new Caranqui subjects. The ceremonial pool would have represented a considerable investment of wealth and labor by the Inca. It also would have showed their skill as engineers by bringing water from as far as five and a half miles away and demonstrated their mastery over a resource with powerful religious symbolism.

Read more at http://www.archaeology.org/issues/61-1301/features/324-ibarra-andes-huayna-capac-atahualpa

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