Capac Nan road
Capac Nan road system of the Capac Nan Inca Empire (Quechua Qhapaq Nan, ‘Main Way or The Way of the Lord “or” Main Andean road “‘) , Is the main road system of the Inca Empire. All the roads of the empire were linked to Cuzco, the imperial capital, from which emerge a series of roads connecting the various peoples of the Inca Empire. During the Tawantinsuyo was a means of integration for the development of Andean culture in the political-administrative, socio-economic, social, cultural and environmental. The Capac Nan out of Cusco in four directions: north Chinchaysuyo occupied by the Quechua, the Yungas and Chibcha the southeast Collasuyo occupied by Aymara and Colla, the Contisuyo, south-west, occupied by pukin, and Antisuyo, east, occupied by the antis (current native populations of the Amazon).The Capac Nan enabled the integration of these people through the exchange of different products, the transmission of cultural values, access to various Inca shrines and development of common practices. He was also a symbol of state power Inca reflecting its expansion along the South American geography, reaching six Andean countries today include: Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia, and uniting different regions making up the Tawantin Suyu . The Qhapaq Nan was the main north-south road, which enables economic and political control of the Inca empire. With more than sixty thousand miles, that backbone was skillfully built by skilled hands and may be compared, for its dimensions, with the Silk Road or the Great Wall of China. The famous Inca Trail that links the sacred valley of Cuzco to Machu Picchu, is minimal and only a tangential part of the gigantic network of Inca roads.