Borde prehispánico de la Yata-Pactá Quitu-Cara: horizonte a largo plazo del Quito Metropolitano

Abstract

This work presents an outlook to the edge approach of the millenary house of the sun or Yata-Pactá of the Quitu-Cara culture, as a result of the existence of a conceptual and geopolitical model of territorial planning that operates with the canons of the rectum sun, or Minu-Pactá, and the Chakana Operating System or Andean sacred geometrical pattern, design guiding instrument for the location of networks of interconnected villages and communication routes. It is about demonstrating the agency of this planification model in the Yata-Pacta configuration. The discussion emphasizes the importance of the Ceques, or nodal axes of the territorial master plan, results of mega alignments projected in the Ecuadorian Integration Period (500 a.c-1500 d.c.). It highlights the multinuclear nodal territories in continuous social, topological and telluric-cosmogonic interaction that continues to subtly operate in the expansion of the neighborhoods and parishes of Metropolitan Quito. The results indicate the relevance of the model as a sustainable development strategy that would provide identity and legitimacy to the occupation of poles of the city, today considered as periphery.