Q'eswachaka Bridge (Peru)
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found: Work cat: 2017056321: From grass to bridge, 2018:CIP galley (swinging grass bridge called the Queswachaka Bridge; Apurimac Bridge replaced every year; locals use the same techniques as the Inka to rebuild it; architect ties the floor cables together)
found: Humanities (via Internet), Fall 2017(Q'eswachaka, only surviving rope bridge that once connected the Inca Empire; spans the ApurÃmac River in Peru; rebuilt yearly by local Quechua communities)
found: Decisions, 8 COM, Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (via UNESCO), Dec. 2013: p. 46, etc.(Q'eswachaka bridge is a rope suspension bridge over a gorge of the Apurimac River in the southern Andes; renewed every year using traditional Inca techniques and raw materials)
found: Peru Ministry of Culture website, Dec. 12, 2017(Q'eswachaka Bridge; UNESCO inscribes the knowledge, skills and rituals associated with the annual restoration of the Q'eswachaka bridge as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity)
found: Smithsonian Journeys quarterly (via Internet), June 26, 2015(Quechua descendants of the Inca have been rebuilding this twisted-rope bridge, or Q'eswachaka; near Huinchiri; part of the Inca Road)
found: Weaving the bridge at Q'eswachaka (published by Smithsonian NMAI on YouTube, June 5, 2015)(Q'eswachaka Bridge; rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Inka; Victoriano Arizpana is the architect of the bridge)
found: LC database, Dec. 11, 2017(El Q'eswachaka de Canas))
notfound: GeoNames search, Dec. 11, 2017
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2017-12-11: new
2018-07-13: revised
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