The national Technical Secretariats of the six countries belonging to the Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System continue their collaborative efforts in strengthening the conservation and management structure of this unique and complex World Heritage site, inscribed in 2014 as a serial cultural transboundary property crossing Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
In the months of August, September and October 2018, members of each national technical team, as well as international experts and representatives from local communities, participated in three distinct workshops as part of the project “Support to the reinforcement of the participative management structure of the Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System”, financed by the Japanese Funds-in-Trust for the Preservation of the World Cultural Heritage.
The first of these workshops was held from 13-15 August 2018 in Lima, Peru with the objective of developing the main lines for Participative Management and Public Use Plans to be implemented in each of the six involved countries. The participants discussed the various ways in which the sites and sections of Qhapaq Ñan are used by locals and visitors: for community use, for educational and research purposes, and for recreation and tourism. The 3-day workshop involved both theoretical and practical activities, followed by field visits to local communities and participation in the “Fourth Regional Walk and Second International Walk for the Great Qhapaq Ñan” in the Sisipampa-Pomata section of the property near Puno, Peru.
The Technical Secretariats met again in Quito, Ecuador, from 24 to 25 September 2018 for the second workshop on the conservation of stone structures in the property. During the workshop, the 14 participants from the six national Technical Secretariats discussed their progress in implementing the lessons learned in the first conservation workshop held in Ecuador in June 2017. The major objective of the workshop was to discuss and concretize a standardized document for the best practices in training for stone conservation in the property.
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