Las geografías del Perú en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

Abstract

The New World opened, during the sixteenth century, an excellent natural and human space, unknown before to both Europe and Spain, with great importance for the later development of the natural, social and humanistic sciences. The Chronicles of Indies include, among other aspects, a fascination for American nature, but also social aspects and economic and political organization of populations that existed there, as well as different aspects imposed by the Spanish new administration. Inca Garcilaso's work brings the novelty of the vision of the native who has lived in this territory with its people. The Royal Commentaries of the Incas includes references of great interest for the knowledge of the geography of Peru. They are basically human geographies of the Incan empire, but there is no shortage of brilliant notes on elements of the physical geography of the Andean territory.