Performance of pre-hispanic irrigation systems in the Andean region of Bolivia

René Chipana Rivera, María Fátima Moreno-Pérez, Ronald Choque Velasco and José Roldán-Cañas

Agricultural Water Management, 2016, vol. 170, issue C, 180-188

Abstract: In the area that is today Bolivia, the pre-Hispanic era was a period of great learning, marked by the management and use of natural resources, where farming became one of the cornerstones of production and where irrigation was an essential practice. In different areas, pre-Hispanic surface irrigation methods are still in use today, such as kanis irrigation and zigzag corrugated furrow irrigation. The primary aim of this paper is to compare the performance of the above irrigation systems using a potato crop at the Choquenaira Experimental Farm located at an altitude of 3877 m above sea level. During the growing cycle, there were seven irrigation events for each system.

Keywords: Kanis irrigation; Zigzag corrugated furrow; Andean region; Pre-Hispanic era; Irrigation performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2015.11.010

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