Descended in part from Inca colonists sent here more than 500 years ago, the inhabitants of Taquile keep the old ways. They weave brilliantly colored cloth, speak the traditional language of the ...
The Inca language, religion, and trade network dominated the Andes. A man chewing coca in a pre-Columbian figure Photograph by DEA/Album Vast amounts of coca, regarded as sacred by the Inca ...
Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built ... around the time Spanish conquistadors invaded the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu's virtually ...