To bring grandeur to his new capital in Ecuador, Huayna Capac put more than ... The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River divided it into two sacred ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... when English botanist Richard Spruce traveled to Ecuador in search of the cinchona tree, the seeds ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... from Chile - from the North of Chile and Argentina, to the North of Ecuador. So I think the Spaniards also used the internal disruption ...

The Inca Empire was essentially a monarchy ... He expanded further north, gaining additional territory in present-day Ecuador, as well as traveling to what is now Chile and Bolivia to ensure ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

The Inca Empire encompassed mountains ... In a two part series, Dr Jago Cooper travels through Peru and Ecuador to reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of one of the greatest empires ...

Once the northern outpost of the Inca empire, history is also steeped in every corner of this land. Despite all of this, Ecuador is not seen as an obvious tourism spot. In fact, just 1.26 million ...

Buried alongside the mummies are statuettes, carvings, and castings made from gold, silver, wood, and spondyllus, a spiny oyster shell from the coast of Ecuador that was highly prized by the Inca.

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... from Chile - from the North of Chile and Argentina, to the North of Ecuador. So I think the Spaniards also used the internal disruption ...