Bridge of Ropes |Ecuador 1802 | Alexander von Humboldt

“This is one of those bridges of ropes, which the Spaniards call puente de maroma, or de hamaca ; and the Peruvian Indians, in the quichua language, or that of the Incas, cimppachaca, from cimppa, or cimpasca, ropes, tresses, and chaca, a bridge.”