Huancabamba is a town in Northern Peru , capital of the province Huancabamba in the region Piura . It is situated in the valley of the Huancabamba river, along which the old Inca road passed leading from Quito to Cajamarca .
4-715: Victor von Hagen , The Royal Road of the Inca (1976) 5°14′S 79°26′W / 5.233°S 79.433°W / -5.233; -79.433 This Piura Region geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Victor von Hagen Victor Wolfgang von Hagen ( St. Louis , Missouri , United States, February 29, 1908 – Italy, March 8, 1985) was an American explorer author, archaeological historian , naturalist and anthropologist who traveled in South America with his wife (Christine, later Silvia). Mainly between 1940 and 1965, he published
8-662: A large number of widely acclaimed books about the ancient people of the Inca , Maya , and Aztecs . Victor Wolfgang von Hagen was born on February 29, 1908, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Henry von Hagen and Eleanor Josephine (Stippe-Hornbach) Von Hagen. He attended Morgan Park Military Academy , a college preparatory school in Chicago. He then went to New York University , the San Francisco University of Quito , and
12-577: The University of Göttingen . During World War II he served in the US Army, 13th Infantry. His first book, Off With Their Heads (1937), was based on an eight-month stay with a tribe of head-hunters in Ecuador. He accompanied some of their war parties and witnessed the process of shrinking heads. Later he traveled through Honduras and Guatemala in search of the elusive quetzal , a bird once revered by
16-812: The ancient Aztecs and Mayas. He recorded his experiences in his next book, Quetzal Quest: The Story of the Capture of the Quetzal, the Sacred Bird of the Aztecs and the Mayas (1939). As a naturalist he was very knowledgeable of the Galapagos Islands and wrote the first comprehensive study of the giant tortoise . He was also an expert on the islands' plant life. Von Hagen was awarded the Orden de Merito by
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