Cusichaca River (possibly from Quechua kusi delight, joy, happiness / merry, joyful, content, happy, chaka bridge, "joy bridge", or k'usi a cucurbit species, a small zucchini or Cucurbita pepo , "zucchini (or Cucurbita pepo ) bridge"), is a river in Peru located in the Cusco Region , Urubamba Province , on the border of the districts Machupicchu and Ollantaytambo . Its waters flow to the Vilcanota River.
6-680: Cusichaca River originates in the Vilcabamba mountain range east of the mountain Salcantay , south of the Paljay and southwest of the Huayanay . Its direction is mainly to the northeast along the villages Pampacahuana, Churo, Paucarcancha, Ranrapata and Incachimpa. Some of its little affluents are Llullucha River from the left and Churomayo and Quesjamayo from the right. Shortly before the Cusichaca River meets
12-482: Is 6,271 m (20,574 ft) above sea level. Most of the names in the range originate from Quechua . They used to be spelled according to a mainly Spanish-based orthography which is incompatible with the normalized spellings of these languages and Law 29735 which regulates the 'use, preservation, development, recovery, promotion and diffusion of the originary languages of Peru'. According to Article 20 of Decreto Supremo No 004-2016-MC (Supreme Decree) which approves
18-554: The Vilcanota River it flows along the archaeological site Patallacta . The confluence of the rivers is between the villages Qoriwayrachina and Pichanuyoc or Pinchaunuyoc. The Cusichaca valley is an archaeologically important region in Peru, significant for the evidence that it has provided of Inca civilization . It was an agriculturally important part of the Inca empire . The valley has been
24-464: The Cusichaca Project and as a result it is one of the most comprehensively studied areas of Peru. Vilcabamba mountain range The Vilcabamba mountain range is located in the region of Cusco , Peru , in the provinces of Anta , La Convención and Urubamba . It extends between 13°10' and 13°27'S. and 72°30' and 73°15'W for about 85 km. Its highest peak is Salcantay, which
30-681: The Regulations to Law 29735, published in the official newspaper El Peruano on July 22, 2016, adequate spellings of the toponyms in the normalized alphabets of the indigenous languages must progressively be proposed with the aim of standardizing the namings used by the IGN . The IGN realizes the necessary changes in the official maps of Peru. Hints to wrong spellings are terms containing hua and hui (instead of wa and wi ), "e", "o", "ca", "cu", "qu" or diphthongs among others. The name Vilcabamba possibly comes from Aymara and Quechua willka :
36-574: The subject of intensive archaeological study over many years under the direction of Dr. Ann Kendall O.B.E., of the Cusichaca Trust. Since its inception the trust has evolved and now also works with highland farming communities in the rehabilitation of abandoned systems of irrigation canals and agricultural terraces, along with the revitalization of other traditional technologies. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, numerous archaeological volunteers from Britain, Peru, North America and other countries worked on
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