📋 Tender Overview
The Qhapaq Nan Project of the Ministry of Culture will include a new approach in the city of Vilcashuaman in Ayacucho which will not only focus on the archaeological heritage of the city but will also include planning and urban development projects for Vilcashuamn as a whole. The city of Vilcashuaman is home to one of the most important archaeological complexes in Peru and adopting new conservation strategies is urgent to prevent urban growth from affecting the Inca site more.To implement this program which includes defining diagnostic and cultural heritage conservation actions the Qhapaq Nan Project - National Headquarters team has carried out two complementary actions a field survey of the situation of the Vilcashuamn monumental urban area and a Dialogue process with local authorities to make concerted decisions on the regulation and enhancement of the urban heritage of the city.Agreements with authorities.In coordination with the lieutenant mayor of Vilcashuamn Willlian Gutierrez Mendoza and the municipal manager Jorge de la Cruz Cabana it was agreed to establish strategies to deal with problems such as the lack of planning and control of buildings in the monumental area of the city.Also in a meeting with Walter Najarro president of the community of Vilcashuamn it was agreed to initiate a participatory process for the update of the regulations for buildings in the monumental urban zone and the monumental zone of Vilcashuamn. Development projects.The work week concluded with a meeting with the director of the Disconcerted Directorate of Culture of Ayacucho Luz Antonio Vargas with whom it is planned to carry out a work that will involve the municipal authorities the community and the Ministry of Culture to plan development projects in harmony with the care of the cultural heritage of Vilcashuamn.More informationThe Qhapaq Nan is an extensive network of roads consolidated in the 15th century by the Incas along the Andes Mountains and which constitutes the largest infrastructure work carried out in pre-Hispanic times. Meanwhile the Qhapaq an Project - National Headquarters is an initiative of the Ministry of Culture that aims to identify investigate register conserve and put the Qhapaq an road network and associated Inca sites into social use.The Vilcashuamn - Sangalla Section Project is part of the Qhapaq an - National Headquarters Project and works on a section of the Qhapaq an that crosses the regions of Ayacucho Huancavelica and Ica. The route begins in the city of Vilcashuamn Ayacucho an Inca center of great administrative importance and ends at La Centinela Ica where there are still large buildings built by the Chinchas and the Incas. The tour connects archaeological sites such as Intihuatana de Pomacocha Inkawasi de Huaytara and Tambo Colorado.
