Tinyaq

Tinyaq
Alternate name Quri Willka
Location Peru, Ayacucho Region
Region Andes
Coordinates 12°58′40″S 74°12′00″W / 12.97778°S 74.20000°W / -12.97778; -74.20000Coordinates: 12°58′40″S 74°12′00″W / 12.97778°S 74.20000°W / -12.97778; -74.20000
Type storehouses
Height 3,300 m (10,827 ft)[1]
History
Cultures Inca[1]

Tinyaq[1] (Quechua tinya a kind of drum, -q a suffix,[2][3] 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),[2][3][4] also spelled Qoriwillka)[1] is an archaeological site in Peru with storehouses of the Inca period on a mountain named Tinyaq. It is located in the Ayacucho Region, Huanta Province, Iguain District.[1][5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Lidio M. Valdez, J. Ernesto Valdez, Los Sistemas de Almacenamiento Inka de Tinyaq, Ayacucho, Perú, Bull. Inst. fr. études andines 2000, 29 (1): 13-27
  2. 1 2 Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. 1 2 Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  4. Mariko Namba Walter,Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture, Vol. 1, p. 439 willka or vilca (Anadenanthera peregrina and Anadenanthera colubrina)
  5. Gobierno Regional de Ayacucho, Plan de Desarrollo Turístico de la Región Ayacucho 2004 – 2014, Aprobado mediante Ordenanza de Consejo Regional N° 03 - 04 - GRA/PRES
  6. escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huanta Province (Ayacucho Region)


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