HILARIA SUPA wears the ancestral clothing and round hat typical of peasant women from her village near Cusco, the former Inca capital in Peru. She also speaks Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire, ...

CCARHUACC LICAPA, Peru (AP) — Leila Ccaico walked slowly to the front of her class in a rural village in the Andes. Reluctantly, she faced her classmates, obeyed her teacher’s orders and started to ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Each June in Huinchiri, Peru, four Quechua communities on two sides of a gorge join together to build a bridge out of grass, creating a form of ancient infrastructure that dates back ...

Accounts of the European en­counter with the New World in the 16th century usually focus on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec kingdom in Mexico. We easily forget that the largest state in the Western ...

Cuzco, I decided, had to be the gayest city in South America. Everywhere I turned were rainbow flags. They fluttered in front of banks, in hotel lobbies, in restaurants, atop government buildings.

Our hiking group had reached the highest point of our trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu. Now, our guide was leading us in a Quechua ritual. We took turns placing stones in an “apacheta” pyramid ...

In the late 1400s, the Inca Empire conquered the indigenous Peruvians of the Chachapoyas region and gained the power to spread the version of history they saw fit. According to the Inca accounts, the ...

FEW POP videos require subtitles. But a minute into “Francisca Pizarro”, a song by the Peruvian singer Renata Flores, some appear. “Let’s just remember that our worlds came together,” Ms Flores ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and ...

CCARHUACC LICAPA, Peru -- Leila Ccaico walked slowly to the front of her class in a rural village in the Andes. Reluctantly, she faced her classmates, obeyed her teacher's orders and started to sing ...