Andean Agriculture
©Photo courtesy of GIAHS Peru - Andean Agriculture
| Project's full title | Andean Agriculture, Peru |
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| Introduction | Andean agriculture has adaptated to the environment for more than 5,000 years. Indigenous agricultural knowledge includes terraces, ridges fields, local irrigation systems, tools and crops/livestock spread at different altitudes. Millennia of experience and selection have led to the domestication of a number of endemic species such as potatoes and quinoa. |
| Country | Peru |
| Start date | 2011 |
| Status | Designated |
| Related publications |
Proposal: Andean Agriculture, Peru01/2011The 350 kilometre transect of the GIAHS pilot site captures such environmental verticality and heterogeneity as it extends from the southern area of the Peruvian Andes and includes the environment around the sacred city of the Incas, Machu Picchu, (1 900 m), including the whole Vilcanota river watershed up to the divortium aquarium in the Raya (4 300 m), crossing to the northern part of the peruvian high plateau to reach Lake Titicaca (3 800 m). |
| Tags | Indigenous Peoples IntegratedAgriculturalSystem Rangelands and Pastoralism TraditionalKnowledge TraditionalSystem Water managment |