Inca Presence in the “Landscape of Events” of the Puna de Jujuy Sector: Huanca, Usno, Cachauis and Quipildor

Abstract

The northeast sector of the highland of Jujuy was part of the Collasuyu region, in the south zone of the Tahuantinsuyu. There are clearly visible four architectural elements that was part of the "landscape events" between XV and XX centuries, huanca, usnu, cachauis and quipildor, which are related with different but not various, periodical ceremonies destined to remember and to ask the help of the ancestors and the Lightning deity. As well, all of them are of common visibility in the archaeology and folklore of the zone.