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Behind the retaining wall, the bottom one metre (3.3 ft) was filled with large stones, overlaid by a layer about 1 metre (3.3 ft) thick of sand or gravel. Capping the top of the terrace was a layer of topsoil about 1 metre (3.3 ft) thick. The result was a terrace providing "well-drained rich soil and a level surface for growing crops."
Inca agriculture was the culmination of thousands of years of farming and herding in the high-elevation Andes mountains of South America, the coastal deserts, and the rainforests of the Amazon basin. These three radically different environments were all part of the Inca Empire (1438-1533 CE) and required different technologies for agriculture .
A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created successively down the terrain in a pattern that resembles the steps of a staircase.
The Oxford Handbook of the Incas. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190219352. Niles, Susan A. (1977). The Shape of Inca History. Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9780877456735. Squier, Ephraim George (1877). Peru-Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. New ...
Terrace, a street suffix; Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street; Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production; Terrace (building), a raised flat platform; Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
Choquequirao is a 15th- and 16th-century settlement associated with the Inca Empire, or more correctly Tahuantinsuyo. [8] The site had two major growth stages. This could be explained if Pachacuti founded Choquequirao and his son, Tupac Inca Yupanqui, remodeled and extended it after becoming the Sapa Inca. [9]
Incan is of or pertaining to the Incas, their culture or empire, the Inca Empire. Incan may also refer to: of or pertaining to Inca, Spain; Incan berries (also called golden berries), popular with some vegans; Inca people, the people of the Incan Empire; Quechua people, the people of the Incan civilization; Incan language, the language of the Incas
The capital of the Inca empire, Cuzco, still contains many fine examples of Inca architecture, although many walls of Inca masonry have been incorporated into Spanish Colonial structures. The famous royal estate of Machu Picchu (Machu Pikchu) is a surviving example of Inca architecture.