Image:The Inka road system

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The Inka road system (after Hyslop 1984)

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Caption

The Inka road system (after Hyslop 1984)

Summary

The Inca road system included over 14,000 miles of roads. The main road, the Camino Real, stretching from Quito (Ecuador) to Tucumán (Argentina), is 3,230 miles long; the coastal road, El Camino de la Costa, is 2,420 miles long.

Sources

The original map appears in John Hyslop. The Inka Road System. Orlando, Academic Press, 1984.

The transcluded map above accompanies the published article by David Jenkins cited below.

The alternative image accompanies the blog entry Inka Economics by Jeffrey Sachs, dated April 22, 2007.

David Jenkins. A Network Analysis of Inka Roads, Administrative Centers, and Storage Facilities. Ethnohistory 48.4 (2001) 655-687.

Copyright

The adaptation of Hyslop's map is Copyright © 2001 The American Society for Ethnohistory. All rights reserved.

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