Abstract

PAEZ, María Cecilia; JAKEL, Andrés  and  LOPEZ, Luciano. ANALYSIS OF INTERSITE VISIBILITY FOR THE LATE AND INCA PERIOD OF THE NORTHERN CALCHAQUÍ VALLEY (SALTA, ARGENTINA). Comechingonia [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.3, pp.71-80. ISSN 1851-0027.

The relationship between local and Inca organizational logics has been a constant focus of interest in the disciplinary field throughout the Andean area. In the northern Calchaquí Valley there is an important body of research that addresses the conformation of these landscapes. Our contribution in this sense lies in analyzing how the visibility between sites with local indigenous occupation and those that respond to state planning, would have conditioned the integration and physical and social articulation of the Calchaquí space. The results obtained suggest, on the one hand, that the Late Period sites would have been intervisible, showing a much greater management and integration of the environment than the Inca sites, for which a disruptive condition is presumed. On the other hand, it questions the idea that sites with Inca architecture would be located in sectors with a better visual management of the environment.

Keywords : landscape analysis; GIS; Northwest Argentina; integration and articulation.

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