A man chewing coca in a pre-Columbian figure Photograph by DEA/Album Vast amounts of coca, regarded as sacred by ... characteristic agricultural terraces on the hillsides. The Inca system for ...

Consequently, the Andes is one of the few world regions where complex, urban, and agricultural ... of sacred landscapes ...

The plundering of Inca riches continues today with the pillaging of sacred sites and blasting ... Cuzco and a small surrounding high Andean agricultural state, date back to A.D. 1200.

sacrificed in Inca times nearly 500 years ago, entombed in graves of ice atop the western hemisphere's highest peaks. To date, over 115 sacred Inca ceremonial sites have been excavated at an ...

The Inca transformed agriculture in the Andes, using dramatic terraces like these at Moray to grow warm-weather crops in a cold-weather climate. The Inca Empire encompassed mountains, forests ...