Inca agriculture
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Inca agriculture was the culmination of thousands of years of farming and herding in the high-elevation Andes mountains of South America, the coastal deserts, and the rainforests of the Amazon basin.
Agricultural Andenes or terraces in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, close to Pisac, Peru.
Terraces were built to permit agriculture in the rugged terrain of the Andes.
Quinoa field near Lake Titicaca.
Around 200 varieties of potatoes were cultivated by the Incas and their predecessors.
Andén
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An andén, Spanish for "platform", is a stair-step like terrace dug into the slope of a hillside for agricultural purposes. The term is most often used to refer to the terraces built by pre-Columbian c
Andenes in the Sacred Valley at Pisac, Peru
Andenes at Moray, Peru
A water channel to drain and irrigate andenes
Andenes in the Colca Canyon