This work focuses on understanding one of the most important mountains surrounding the valley of Cusco , in pre-Hispanic times it was a tutelary Apu very important, and that its name was changed according to the situations of social actors of those times , whose validity still remains . It is given different names like Apian , aspire and Yauira , again aspire , again Apian and Yauirac from 1571-1653 recorded by chroniclers of those times. Then with the removal of idolaters is assigned the name of Simon who was quechuizado to Quimon and finally the Mama Simona and converted into a female mountain spirit. Whose importance is explained by the role it plays in the ancestral memory and its claim as such in our times.

For the people of the Andes, the Apus reverence and sacred mountains, converted into local protectors, did not go unnoticed at the time, so, as the Salkantay mountains, including the surrounding ones, assume an important role into the Andean worldview. For example the Waqay Willke snowy peak (5720 m), within the traditional Andean symbolism of dualistic thinking, is considered the complement of Salkantay, that is one of the most powerful and active deities of the place, and it is appreciated by the people, the father of all the mountains in the region and even nowadays is held in great veneration, so Machupicchu and Choquechurco holds an intimate visual contact with the Salkantay and other snowy peaks of the Vilcabamba chain.

The present work is carried out from the perspective of the Cultural Heritage Management and based on the disturbances and spatial changes that were identified in the area of the Archaeological Park of Ollantaytambo (PAO), based on the information offered in the literature Site, the process of drawing up the ODP Master Plan for 2005, which is now outdated and unfortunately not implemented, as well as its own experiences, offering a situational diagnosis of human settlements through axes, as a document of integration and methodological adequacy.

The Physicochemical and multielemental analyzes, carried out on ceramic surface fragments from Markaconga, located in the province of Acomayo in Cusco, aimed to determine the relationship and interrelation in the chemical composition of ceramic pastes, pigments and slips present in its decorations, in order to identify moments of manufacture and/or chromatic, symbolic and semiotic transfer, present in these fragments. The same one that allows us to build a preliminary interpretation of the degree of influence and relationships from early societies of the North basin of Lake Titicaca, which had very identifiable stylistic and artistic patterns in their pottery.

This work is built on the basis of archaeological explorations in the Vilcabamba mountain range, depository of a vast amount of archaeological remains, which correspond to various periods and phases of human occupation, our objective was the sacred mountains in their role as deities, protective guardians and oracles; In collaboration with Andean priests, we were able to perceive that they have a sacred and hierarchical order, they are a brotherhood with a territory, they talk making decisions for the climate of the region. His subjects ask permission with offerings to travel through their territory, carry out their activities, as well as be protected. The qualities that the area possesses are framed in its geographical characteristics with peculiar architecture, adapted to the sacred geography, associated with a territorial management of volumes and solutions to the difficult topography,...

El motivo para la realización del presente trabajo de investigación, se centra en la perspectiva de la gestión del patrimonio cultural, ligada con el manejo del paisaje cultural, dentro de un contexto ideológico, republicano y contemporáneo del mundo andino. Además, esta la idea de cómo perciben los habitantes de la circunscripción el cambio del paisaje a través de la introducción de infraestructura turística y cuál es la concepción de la sacralidad y paisaje cultural intangible que ellos tienen, luego cómo perciben los habitantes del área de estudio la actitud de la montaña del Salkantay frente a la introducción de infraestructura turística, de cómo se degrada el paisaje cultural con el uso inadecuado de su espacio circundante. Por otro lado, como la construcción de la infraestructura turística (hoteles), trae como consecuencia una alteración drástica del carácte...

The Inka society was established under a hierarchical but also nuclearized organization, the Inka always thought of a beginning, but not only mental, historical, but spatially or territorially, the system of ceques and the most important ritual of the Inka state was Qhapaq Qocha, A demonstration of how important everything should be, the zero point. So what does Cusco mean? There are several etymological analyzes in this regard, however the analysis must go from the perspective of the Cusco concept, in the mind of Inka society. Some chronicles, although not clearly related to the subject, have touched in their stories the idea that the Inka would construct New Cusco, which would imply not to the construction to urban and architectural similarity, but rather conceptual, clear that under the Criterion of an ideal spatial axis.