Titiconte
Coordinates: 22 ° 46 ′ 2 ″ S , 65 ° 11 ′ 20 ″ W
Titiconte is an archaeological site with the remains of a pre-Columbian fortification called Pucara . It is located in the northwest of Argentina , in the Iruya department of the Salta province , 5 km northeast of the village of Iruya .
The ruins of Titiconte consist of terraced buildings with rectangular and circular floor plans, which formerly formed part of the fortification and served as storage facilities. On some walls there are mosaics depicting animals.
Titiconte was born in 1930 in an expedition by Dr. Salvador Debenedetti and Dr. Eduardo Casano explores. This resulted in a publication in the Ethnographic Museum of Buenos Aires ("Museo Etnográfico de Buenos Aires") with the title "Titiconte". A few years later the ruins of Titiconte were discovered by Dr. Fernando Márquez visits Miranda, who published a report about it called “Cuatro viajes de estudio al más remoto Noroeste Argentino” (“Four study trips to the northeasternmost place in Argentina”) at the University of La Plata (“Universidad de La Plata”).
Access
The way to Titiconte leads from the village of Iruya along the Iruya river . Between the confluence of the San Isidro river and the village of Aguas Blancas , you go on the right side of the Iruya river through difficult to access, impassable terrain up to Titiconte.
literature
- Dr. Salvador Debenedetti, Dr. Eduardo Casanova: Titiconte . Publicación del Museo Etnográfico Juan B. Ambrosetti, Buenos Aires; Series "A" III Año 1933-1935.
- Dr. Fernando Márquez Miranda: Cuatro viajes de estudio al más remoto Noroeste Argentino . Universidad de La Plata; Revista del Museo de La Plata, Antropología No: 6 Tomo: I.
- Chris Field: A Reconnaissance of Southern Andean Agricultural Terracing . Los Angeles 1966
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eduardo E. Berberian, María Ester Albeck - Historia Argentina Prehispanica, Volume 1
- ↑ Cerámica, Arte y Arquitectura ( Memento from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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