Vilcabamba Maps

This website is dedicated to study of the Vilcabamba region of Peru - a place of exciting Incan discovery.

In reading books about this area, I found it difficult to remember what areas are where and what those areas are famous for. So I decided to create an interactive map. Some locations were on some maps but not on others. So finding a certain location meant jumping from book to book and going to the library. So I decided to make it easier and more efficient.

This is a great map for following along in your book or study of the Incas.

Satellite Maps
I am in the process of upgrading the map. This new one uses Google Map technology. Visually it's more appealing and the user has greater navigation control. Ultimately this map will contain the same information as the Composite Map.

Composite Map
I decided to take one map and use it as the base map. Then mark the locations not on its map but that are on another. Rollover locations to learn more about it. And click the locations to see a photo of it. The maps will continue to grow as I read more books. This is the older of my two maps - not as pretty but it contains a ton of locations.

References
Glossary of Inca / Quechua words
Tribes of Peru

Bibliography
This website is for educational use only and not intended to take advantage of current excellent publications. I update the bibliography regularly. I have found it very difficult to find books and maps - if you've found a handy resource or tips or have photos of places that I dont, please let me know at andy@andyroscoe.com .

Books and maps used (colors indicate which map they are associated with) :

Alva, Walter & Maria Longhena. The Incas and other Ancient Andean Civilizations. White Star, Barnes & Noble, 2007. Tons of photos and illustrations.

Bingham, Hiram. National Geographic, 1912. The man who found Machu Pichu and nearly every site in the Vilcabamba.

Bingham, Hiram. Lost City of the Incas. Librerias ABC, Lima , Peru 1948.

Bingham, Hiram. Inca Land . Most of the Bingham photos are from this book.

Hemmings, John & Ranney, Edward. Monuments of the Incas. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston: 1982.

Hyams, Edward & Ordish, George. The Last of the Incas. Barnes & Noble , New York : 1963.

Lee, Vincent. Forgotten Vilcabamba. Final Stronghold of the Incas. Sixpac Manco, 2000.

National Geographic Magazine. Each note is marked with which issue it references.

Peru. Insight Guides & Discovery Channel. APA Publications 2000.

Pizarro, Pedro. Cousin of Francisco, chronicled the Spanish conquest.

Political map of Peru . A current map I got while in Peru in 2001.

Prescott, William. History of the Conquest of Peru . Volume I. JB Lippincott Co: 1874 Philadelphia. Volume II. Dana Estest & Co: 1847 Boston. He created the first compresive history of the fall of the Incas. Available for free download at Gutenburg Project.

Rose, Mark. "Exploring the Inca Heartland." Archeaology, 1 Sep 1999 . link.

Steele, Paul. Handbook to Inca Mythology. ABC-CLIO, Inc. 2004.

Sancho, Pedro. Sancho Relacion. Francisco Pizarro's secretary. Comments used at Saihuite.

Savoy, Gene. Antisuyo, the Search for the Lost Cities of the Amazon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. The man who inspired Indiana Jones. He found the Last City of the Incas and thoroughly explored the Vilcabamba.

Squier, E George. Peru: Incidents of Travel. 1877. His insights are included mostly in the Bingham map.

Thomson, Hugh. The White Rock, An Exploration of the Inca Heartland. New York: Overlook Press, 2003. A journal of an English explorer in Peru . He is currently finding new sites. Very exciting and inspiring

Thomson, Hugh. A Sacred Landscape: the Search for Ancient Peru. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2007.

Von Hagen, Adriana & Morris, Craig. The Cities of the Ancient Andes . Thames and Hudson, London, 1998

Von Hagen, Victor. Highway of the Sun. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1955. A thorough exploration of the Inca highway system.

Von Hagen, Victor. Realm of the Incas. New American Library, New York , 1957.

Von Hagen, Victor. The Royal Road of the Incas. Gordon Cremonesi, London , 1976.

Weiner, Charles. French explorer or the Vilcabamba. Provided illustrations of Saihuite.

Wright, Kenneth & Zegarra, Alfredo Valencia. Machu Picchu, a Civil Engineering Marvel. Virgina: ASCE Press 2000.

(Comparison Map)
This map is a comparison map. You can compare two maps at the same time. Compare the current political map to Bingham's map published in National Geographic in 1912. I found that everyone's maps were not to scale or mistaken in their scale - so overlapping maps became confusing and not so helpful.

You will need Flash Player 6 to be able to use the maps.

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