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==Caption==
{{Transcluded image thumbnail|The_Inka_road_system|The Inka road system (after Hyslop 1984)}}

==Summary==
The [[wikipedia:Inca road system|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 [http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/04/inca_economics.html Inka Economics] by Jeffrey Sachs, dated April 22, 2007.

David Jenkins.
[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ethnohistory/v048/48.4jenkins_fig01.html 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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