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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

quijlo
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It is a word of Quechua origin, which refers to the cracks or fissures of the ground. More technically they are known as faults or geological fractures. Their knowledge helped the Incas to know where to build their settlements and where to get water.

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Quechua term with which the Incas named the tectonic faults or geological fractures of the Andes as those that converge in the area of Machu Picchu, investigated by geologist Rualdo Menegat.

  



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