{"id":33,"date":"2022-06-28T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2022-09-28T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:29:22","slug":"what-is-the-inca-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/28\/what-is-the-inca-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Inca Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Caminoparaelblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Caminoparaelblog.jpg 739w, https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Caminoparaelblog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Camino Inca (the Spanish\u00a0 name of\u00a0 the\u00a0 Inca road system) \u00a0in pre-Columbian South America \u00a0was the most advanced and extensive\u00a0 transportation system. The routes\u00a0 and trails ran in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and\u00a0 Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was about 24,800 miles long or more than 30, 000 km! And now it is still in\u00a0 good condition after over 500 years of use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the system was the result of the Incas claiming exclusive right over numerous traditional routes, some of which had been \u00a0paved\u00a0 centuries earlier mostly by the Wari Empire (culture that precede the Inca Empire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The network was based on two north-south roads with numerous branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important Inca road was the Camino Real (Royal Road), as it is known in Spanish, with a length of 5,200 kilometres (3,200 mi). It began in Quito, Ecuador, passed through Cusco, and ended in what is now Tucum\u00e1n, Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PARABLOG1.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PARABLOG1.2.jpg 739w, https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PARABLOG1.2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The true extent of the road network is not completely known, since the Spaniards, post conquest, either dug up the road completely in some areas, or allowed it to deteriorate and fall into ruin under iron-clad horses\u2019 hooves, or the metal wheels of ox-carts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camino Inca (the Spanish\u00a0 name of\u00a0 the\u00a0 Inca road system) \u00a0in pre-Columbian South America \u00a0was the most advanced and extensive\u00a0 transportation system. The routes\u00a0 and trails ran in Colombia, Ecuador,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inca-trail","tag-what-is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incatrailtrips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}