Patrimonio cultural y estrategias de conservación desde un enfoque incluyente: el caso de las andenerías prehispánicas de Pisaq, Valle Sagrado de los Incas, Cusco, Perú

Abstract

This essay underscore the fundamental role that the traditional communities of the inter-Andean valleys of the southern highlands of Peru should play in the patrimonialization processes promoted by the State on pre-Hispanic agricultural infrastructure for ancestral use. The sample under study represents a set of terraces and agricultural systems of the Inca period located within the Archaeological Park of Pisaq, located in the Vilcanota basin, near the city of Cuzco. It is proposed that the traditional use of platforms, terraces and pre-Hispanic irrigation systems constitutes a long-term preventive and sustainable conservation strategy, opposed to orthodox concepts of intangibilization or expropriation, important in the mitigation of damage by natural phenomena or in the preservation of the social organization around ancestral agricultural knowledge.
Consequently, the application of integrated cultural policies to traditional uses of ancestral spaces could guarantee a more solid, responsible, renewed and permanent valuation of Andean cultural landscapes while ensuring their conservation over time.