Qullqa
INCA STORAGE BUILDING
Colca; Qolca; Qollca; Quolla; Qolla; Qollqa; Collca; Qolqa; Qollqas
A qullqa ( "deposit, storehouse";Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) (spelling variants: colca, collca, qolca, qollca) was a storage building found along roads and near the cities and political centers of the Inca Empire. To a "prodigious [extent] unprecedented in the annals of world prehistory" the Incas stored food and other commodities which could be distributed to their armies, officials, conscripted laborers, and, in times of need, to the populace.