Para visualizar el mapa en AR, debes descargar la aplicación (al momento disponible para sistemas operativos Android para móbiles y tabletas).
Once you have the application installed, scan the image of the map and access exclusive information in AR.
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Yuraq Janka – Cordillera Blanca is an immersive and interactive exploration of the rugged geography and recent history of the Cordillera Blanca, one of the world’s most extensive glacier-covered tropical mountain ranges, revealing its radical transformation process caused by global warming.
This expedition is led by Victor, an enigmatic local mountain guide. Victor is what indigenous communities of the Andes know as a Chakaruna, a human-bridge-entity that connects worlds, dimensions and times. Victor is the bearer of ancestral knowledge and has an important message to share, a call to immediate action to keep this place, his home, safe for generations to come.
The Cordillera Blanca AR app combines 3D geographic data and archival material and allows users to participate in a unique expedition of its kind: an interactive exploration of the transforming geography of the Cordillera Blanca.
The AR Experience uses as a trigger a redesigned version of the first maps, created by three major expeditions of the Austro-German Alpine Society. Conducted between the 1930s and 1940s, the expeditions were funded by the nationalist government of Germany.
Since then, the maps have become an essential tool for exploring this rough territory, but they have also redefined national and global perceptions and served as a useful instrument for the implementation of new intervention projects in this environment.
The web project Yuraq Janka – Cordillera Blanca presents the history of the abrupt process of transformation of the Cordillera Blanca from the 1930s to the present day caused by global warming, highlighting the meeting points between technological development, scientific advances, and the human impulse to understand and dominate a territory, which in turn responds with a force that is often uncontrollable.
«As temperatures rise around the world, the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca are melting faster, new glacial lakes are forming, and old ones are growing in size. The water they carry is an indispensable source of life. However, they can also cause enormous destruction through avalanches and floods.»