Caranqui, Ibarra
Subtitle: transformación simbólica del centro sagrado
By: Alfredo Lozano Castro
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Colección Ciencia y simbólica del habitat andino
Publisher: [Universidad Central del Ecuador]
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [Quito, Ecuador?]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789942309945
Subjects: Indians of South America; Antiquities; History
Description: Caranqui, a small Ibarra suburb situated at the north base of Mount Imbabura, has about 5000 people.  If you drive about 3 kilometers south of Ibarra, past an oddly-shaped cubic building and up a hill, you will arrive in this small town, called the "centro antiguo" or "old center" locally. Historically and archeologically, it is an extremely important area.  Historians differ as to whether the Inca ruins were constructed by Huayna Capa, the conqueror of the area or by one of his two sons, Atahualpa. At any rate, it is the birthplace of Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor.  It is possibly the last Inca site to be built in South America before the Inca empire fell to the Spanish invasion.
Notes: Date of publication from Presentación.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-312)

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Presentación / Oswaldo Páez Barrera, D. Arq.; title: Introducción; title: Capítulo I. Contexto geográfico y enfoque histérico arqueológico en la región septentrional andina; title: Capítulo II. Astronomía cultural, cosmogonía, simbólica e iconografía norandina; title: Capítulo III. Cosmovisión andina: concepción cultural del espacio y sacralidad del territorio; title: Capítulo IV. Ordenación territorial y principales centros poblados en la región norandina; title: Capítulo V. Caranqui - Centro sagrado ancestral; trazado mítico-simbólico y geométrico; title: Capítulo VI. Apropiación simbólica y reorganización colonial de la región norandina; title: Capítulo VII. Síntesis del crecimiento urbano territorial de Ibarra, persistencias del trazado ancestral y festividades rituales.