Cumbemayo: Topography and hydraulic characteristics of the Inca canal

Authors

Joel Petter Calderón Gutiérrez
Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3007-6017
Rosa Ricardina Chávez Farro
Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5699-6447

Keywords:

topography, hydraulics, channels

Synopsis

This book seeks to analyze the hydraulic characteristics of the Inca canals of Cumbemayo, in the Peruvian department of Cajamarca. The abilities of human beings, and especially those who lived in environments of deep need to solve immediate needs, meant that they had to formulate immediate solutions in order to survive, which, in turn, implied the use of skills such as observation, experimentation or even the formulation of belief systems that had a practical application in the description of the immediate world around them.
In this way, it seeks to analyze the concepts of science and, especially, that of practical science to account for the scientific perspective that premodern civilizations could present to solve their immediate needs or to transcend them. In the second part, it is intended to link the use of scientific resources in these populations with the needs they had to supply clean and available water to the majority of the population, in addition to accounting for both the hydraulic innovations that were carried out in America as well as the ritual symbolism associated with water management in these civilizations.

 

 

Title registered in the National Repository of Legal Deposit of the Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, under number 4-1-3731-2024, and with ISBN 978-9917-639-21-3 registered in the Chamber from the Book Peace.

Author Biographies

Joel Petter Calderón Gutiérrez, Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca

Civil Engineer and Forest Engineer. Member of the College of Engineers of Peru – Chimbote Departmental Council – Ancash, with CIP No. 71626. Master of Science: Natural Resources, Water – Soil, National University of Cajamarca. Doctor in Environmental Sciences – National University of Trujillo. Former professor at the National University of Cajamarca, former professor at the National University of Santa, former professor at the National Autonomous University of Chota, former professor at the Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University of Amazonas, former professor at the National University of Trujillo, former professor from the Fabiola Salazar Leguía National Intercultural University of Bagua. Author of scientific article in the Science and Technology Magazine of the National University of Trujillo. Co-author of scientific research at the National University of Cajamarca. Likewise, he is a researcher and public works consultant with C-4805 – OSCE. He currently performs consulting functions in public works.

Rosa Ricardina Chávez Farro, Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca

Graduate in Nursing. Master of Science: Public Health. Doctorate in Public Health – National University of Trujillo. Associate professor assigned to the Academic Department of Nursing of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the National University of Cajamarca. Professor at the Graduate School of the National University of Cajamarca. Author of scientific articles for prestigious magazines such as Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, Scielo, Anales de la Faculty of Medicine and Revista Ciencia y Tecnología.

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Published

May 16, 2024

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