{"id":13086,"date":"2023-07-14T01:48:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13086"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:44:13","slug":"chavin-de-huantar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chavin-de-huantar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavin de Huantar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Chavin de Huantar:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is Located around 190 miles (306 km) <strong>northeast of Lima, Peru.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Chavin de Huantar archeological site is among the culture&#8217;s most important centers, thriving <strong>from around 1,500-550 B.C.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the earliest and best-known <strong>pre-Columbian sites.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They date back to the first sedentary farming communities in the northern highlands of the Peruvian Andes, more than 2,000 years <strong>before the Inca Empire <\/strong>rose to power.<\/li>\n<li>It served as the center of <strong>social, political, and religious<\/strong> activity in the Andean Highlands.<\/li>\n<li>The Chav\u00edn people developed a <strong>culturally rich society<\/strong> with a complex religious hierarchy and an extensive trade network<\/li>\n<li>The Chavin are well-known for their <strong>advanced art, often featuring depictions<\/strong> of birds and felines.<\/li>\n<li>It is evident in the still breathtaking stone buildings, terraces and plazas embellished with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic bas-relief carvings.<\/li>\n<li>It was declared as a UNESCO <strong>world heritage site<\/strong> in 1985.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Inca Empire?<\/h3>\n<p>The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire or Tawantinsuyu, was the largest pre-Columbian civilization in the Americas. It existed in what is now modern-day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and parts of Colombia and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/peru-temple-site-archaeology-condor-passageway\/article67075076.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>At Peru temple site, archaeologists explore 3,000-year-old &#8216;condor&#8217;s passageway&#8217;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chavin de Huantar is Located around 190 miles (306 km) northeast of Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}