Typical Chinchero View
Dear Reader, I’m pleased to report that today was exactly what I hoped this trip would be. After a leisurely wake up and breakfast (hah – I was up at 4:30 for a conference call and worked until 7:30), we loaded into the van and headed to Chinchero, an Incan village at roughly 12,5000 feet on the Anta plain, to visit a local weaving project/workshop/museum. Chinchero had several interesting features, the most pervasive being that it is one of the 12 Andean communities that keep the traditional urban design and social structures from Incan times. This means a very winding urban layout following the natural contours of the hills on which the town is situated. It also means a church built by the Spanish in the 16th century on top of an Incan plaza. Unusually, this church was an incredible example of syncretism at work. (more…)
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