This section, about 1,100 miles northwest of Cuzco, is part of the “Great Road,” or Capac Ñan, as the Inca knew it—the grandest engineering achievement of the pre-Hispanic Americas ...

Machu Picchu was only one of many cities, provincial supply centers and seats of government that were connected by one of the most astounding accomplishments of its time, the Inca Road.

Halfway around the globe, the Inca Road running from Quito to Cuzco to Santiago covered over 5,000 miles, forming the nerve system of the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas. The Inca ...

The expedition's efforts resulted in the discovery of an ancient Inca road that coincides with the descriptions of the historical map known as the "derrotero de Valverde," which is believed to ...