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The Q’eswachaka bridge has been built and rebuilt ... s Canas Province—just one of many similar rope suspension bridges built during the Inca Empire, linking the massive territory by way ...
the last suspended rope bridge from the Inca Empire. Located on the western edge of South America, tucked between Earth's largest rainforest (the Amazon), its driest desert (the Atacama ...
Dangling over a vertiginous gorge, the Apurimac River flowing around 10 stories below, Indigenous Peruvians show no fear as they repair a centuries-old Inca rope suspension bridge -- the world's last.
Some of traditional grass bridges remained in use until the 19th century. An Inca rope bridge still hangs over a canyon near the highlands community of Huinchiri, Peru, more than a four-hour’s ...
PERU - Dangling over a vertiginous gorge, the Apurimac River flowing around 10 stories below, Indigenous Peruvians show no fear as they repair a centuries-old Inca rope suspension bridge -- the ...
Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together ...
The annual reweaving was canceled in 2020, due to the pandemic, causing the bridge—one of the last surviving Inca rope bridges—to collapse from disrepair. But community members were able to ...
Dangling over a vertiginous gorge, the Apurimac River flowing around 10 stories below, Indigenous Peruvians show no fear as they repair a centuries-old Inca rope suspension bridge — the world’s last.
Some of the workers chew coca leaves for energy. There is a narrow metal bridge next to the rope structure that communities also use for trade and transport. Cries of "Haylly Q'eswachaka!" ...