🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Puquios de la Achirana
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1450 CE · Inca (Quechua) imperial engineers
12 Inca puquios gallery aqueducts (17 km, 1450 CE) of the Achirana canal, Inca ashlar aqueduct feeding Ica Valley.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Nazca Puquios Aqueducts
Nasca culture, Early Intermediate (~500 BCE – 600 CE; puquios ~300–600 CE) · Nasca (Nazca)
Unique Andean hydraulic analog to Persian qanats: 36 puquios, each a stone-lined infiltration gallery tapping sub-river gravel aquifers, ventilated by corkscrew stone spirals descending to the…
