A chasqui (also spelled chaski) was a messenger of the Inca Empire. Agile, highly trained and physically fit, they were in charge of carrying messages in the form of quipus, oral information, or small packets.

2023年12月4日 · Polychrome statue of a chasqui at the Museum of Post in Lima/Image: Wikimedia Commons. Juan de Betanzos says that the Sapa Inca received all messages within five or six days, while Martín de Murúa provides an interesting example:

The word chasqui comes from the Quechua language and refers to "one who delivers or passes something on," symbolizing their role in communication and transportation. Thanks to the chasquis, the flow of messages between the capital city of Cusco and every corner of Tahuantinsuyo was constant and reliable.

2025年2月8日 · 查斯基（西班牙语： Chasqui ，也被译作海螺信使 [1] [2] ）是印加帝国对邮差、送信员的称呼，意为“交换”或者“传出和接收”，还有说法是意为“接收东西的人”或者“从事交换的人”。

Chasquis were stationed in small, one-room huts about every two miles along the rock-paved Inca road system. Each boy carried a message or parcel as fast as he could to the next hut and passed it on to a waiting runner. In this manner, messages could traverse the entire Inca kingdom, from north to south, in just a matter of days.

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2024年10月18日 · The Chaski (or Chasqui) played a vital role as messengers in the Inca Empire, helping to keep communication fast and effective across the vast distances of the extensive Qhapaq Ñan, the empire’s road network.

A Chasqui was a runner in the Incan Empire's human version of the Pony Express. This piece by an Ecuadoran group called Tahauntinsuyo (the "Incan Empire" in ...

2009年8月22日 · English: Statue of Chasqui runner, from the post office museum in Centro Lima, Peru.

To know who were the Chaskis we have to go back in time to the Inca culture that began its heyday between the XV and XVI centuries in the Andean area of South America and was considered one of the largest and most influential cultures of the time having an extension from the extreme north of Chile to the south side of Colombia to also considerin...