Diagnóstico de peligros geodinámicos en los parques arqueológicos de P’ísaq y Ollantaytambo-Cusco

• Main Author: Raúl Carreño Collatupa
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Institut Français d'Études Andines 2006-05-01
• Series: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
• Subjects: Sacred Valley of Inkas; P’ísaq; Ollantaytambo; hazard-vulnerability; landslides; rock falls
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/bifea/4491

The archaeological parks of P’ísaq and Ollantaytambo are the most important of the so-called Sacred Valley of Inkas, being one of the main tourist destinations of the country and of the continent. Due to their geological-geomorphological setting, they are threatened by geodynamic and torrential processes representing different hazard-vulnerability levels. In some cases the catastrophic episodes induced damage or destruction of some archaeological elements. The geodynamic and torrential phenomena that represent a danger for those monuments are: the permanent, slow and large scale landslides, Toppling and associate rock falls, the active talus cones, erosion, floods and debris flow (huaycos).