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Uchkus Inkañan

archaeological site in Peru

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4479436 ↗
Source-derived summary

Uchkus Inkañan (Quechua uchku hole, opening Inka Inca, ñan road, route, hispanicized spellings Uchcus Incañan, Uchkus Incanan, Uchkus Incañan) is an archaeological site in the Huancavelica Region in Peru. It is located in the Huancavelica Province, Yauli District.

Editorial summary

“Uchkus Inkañan” enters the record as archaeological site in Peru. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Uchkus, Inkañan and archaeological can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 38-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Uchkus, Inkañan and archaeological.
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Why this record matters

“Uchkus Inkañan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Uchkus, Inkañan and archaeological provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4479436. Authority coordinates are -12.737, -74.863. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Uchkus Inkañan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.