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Réf.
41575
Type
conference item
Titre
Catarpe in the Atacama Desert of Chile: The Spirit Site or the Site of the Spirit?
Langues
English
Auteurs
Atria Lannefranque, Jorge
Date
2008
Pages
9 p.
Titre de conférence
16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’
Lieu de conférence
Québec, Canada
Date de conférence
29 sept – 4 oct 2008
Mots-clés
Incas / spirit of place / historic sites / archaeological sites / intangible heritage / human settlement sites
Pays mentionnés
Chile
Monuments et sites
Catarpe, Atacama Desert, Chile
Résumé en anglais
Among many cultural manifestations developed by the people whoinhabited our Pre Hispanic America, we find the Incas who stopped their
conqueror step and set their eyes on Catarpe, which is an extended meseta(plateau), at the Chilean north, that overlooks the San Pedro River, in the
middle of the Atacama Desert.Attentive to the "site spirit" that detained and met them with its silence and
the vastness of its faraway horizons, the Incas built a new settlement thatturned out to be both useful and functional at their founding purposes, but
also enabled them to give sacred character to the territory full of meanings bymeans of an architecture that collects and integrates in a whole the space, the
matter, the landscape and a particular understanding of the universe thatcharacterized these people worshippers of the sun.
Even today the "site spirit" in Catarpe is still beating, becoming this place inthe "site of the spirit", in the place that the memory cannot disappear or move
into oblivion.
conqueror step and set their eyes on Catarpe, which is an extended meseta(plateau), at the Chilean north, that overlooks the San Pedro River, in the
middle of the Atacama Desert.Attentive to the "site spirit" that detained and met them with its silence and
the vastness of its faraway horizons, the Incas built a new settlement thatturned out to be both useful and functional at their founding purposes, but
also enabled them to give sacred character to the territory full of meanings bymeans of an architecture that collects and integrates in a whole the space, the
matter, the landscape and a particular understanding of the universe thatcharacterized these people worshippers of the sun.
Even today the "site spirit" in Catarpe is still beating, becoming this place inthe "site of the spirit", in the place that the memory cannot disappear or move
into oblivion.
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