The Capac Nan, in Quechua, "The Way of the Lord" is a network of roads and infrastructure built over 2,000 years of Andean culture. Reach over 6,000 km, from southern Colombia to the south-central Chile, through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina totaling 25,000 kilometers in total that were articulated in the central area by the culturaWari. Later, with the arrival of the Incas to the region from establishing the Tawantinsuyo Titicaca, in which lived a few million inhabitants, which were connected by a complex network of paths that started from Cuzco to the four cardinal points his or . The English made him a stretch of the Camino Real and was the basis of communications between the provinces of the Viceroyalty of Peru and later to New Granada and La Plata. During the Republic, the roads linked the new nations, to the construction of roads with the arrival of automobiles in the twentieth century.
El Camino Trunk or major axis of the Sierra is organized by the Andean peaks, with parallel paths through the Pacific Coast and transverse corridors linking the coast with the highlands and the Yungas area
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The only sections with international tourist market are the so-called Inca Trail from Cuzco to Machu Picchu in Peru and the Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina
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In connection with the Peruvian section this corresponds to a distance of 50 kilometers, three-day walk, which links the city Cuzco Machu Picchu, which has become famous and that it is crossed by thousands of tourists annually.
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Youtube: Video Capac Nan road with Andean music.
Sources: Wikipedia
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