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Tinyaq
Tinyaq (Quechua language, Quechua ''tinya'' a kind of drum, ''-q'' a suffix, also spelled ''Tinyacc'') or Quri Willka (Quechua ''quri'' gold, ''willka'' minor god in the Inca culture, an image of the Willkanuta valley worshipped as God; grandchild; great-grandson; lineage; holy, sacred, divine, ''willka'' or ''wilka'' ''Anadenanthera colubrina'' (a tree), also spelled ''Qoriwillka'') is an archaeological site in Peru with storehouses of the Inca Empire, Inca period on a mountain named Tinyaq. It is located in the Ayacucho Region, Huanta Province, Iguain District.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huanta Province (Ayacucho Region) References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huanta Province
Huanta Province is the northernmost of the eleven provinces in the Ayacucho region in Peru. The capital of the Huanta province is the city of Huanta. History In the colonial era, Huanta province was larger than it is currently, with traditional ties to the central sierra of Peru, and largely indigenous. The province's capital, also called Huanta, was the site of an ecclesiastical ''doctrina'' and the center of a civil administrative district, ''corregimiento''. In a royal census of 1795, Huanta province had 27,337 inhabitants, of which 10,080 (36%) were mixed-race mestizos. Huanta was the site of a major rebellion (1825–28) against the newly-formed Peruvian state. The Huanta Rebellion, led by Antonio Abad Huachaca, is characterized as a monarchist rebellion. It brought together different ethnic and occupational groups in complex interactions. The peasants of Huanta, called Iquichanos, were monarchist rebels and were transformed into liberal guerrillas. They allied with Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iguain District
Iguain District is one of eight districts of the province Huanta in Peru. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (81.05%) learnt to speak in childhood, 18.67% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish) See also * Inka Raqay * Kachimayu * |