MANIFESTO OF THE INKA ROUTE 2027
A Call to the Youth of the World
The Inka Route: a living path, not a memory
The Inka Route is not merely a journey across territories.
It is a living cultural process, born from the ancestral road network known as the Qhapaq Ñan, which once united peoples, knowledge, languages, and spiritual visions across South America.
Today, in a world marked by fragmentation, environmental crisis, and loss of identity, the Inka Route re-emerges as a symbolic and educational path, inviting young people from all continents to reconnect with the wisdom of ancestral civilizations and to walk together toward a shared future.
A continental project with global vocation
Since its creation more than two decades ago, the Inka Route has brought together thousands of young participants from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, fostering dialogue between cultures, universities, indigenous communities, artists, educators, and public institutions.
The Inka Route 2027 represents a new chapter in this long journey:
a continental call that seeks to reaffirm culture as a pillar of integration, education, peace, and sustainable development.
This initiative does not belong to a single country, ideology, or generation.
It belongs to all who understand that heritage is not a museum object, but a living responsibility.
Youth as ambassadors of ancestral wisdom
Participants in the Inka Route are not tourists.
They are cultural ambassadors.
Through direct experience—walking ancient paths, engaging with local communities, and learning from indigenous knowledge systems—young people discover that the legacy of ancestral civilizations offers answers to today’s challenges: respect for nature, community life, reciprocity, and balance.
The Inka Route proposes a model of experiential education, where learning occurs through encounter, reflection, and shared effort.
Culture as State policy and collective responsibility
The Inka Route calls upon governments, universities, cultural institutions, artists, and civil society to recognize culture as a strategic axis of public policy, beyond political cycles and short-term agendas.
Ancestral heritage—material and immaterial—must be protected, transmitted, and activated as a source of identity, creativity, and social cohesion.
The Inka Route 2027 advocates for:
- the recognition of ancestral road systems as living cultural corridors
- the strengthening of intercultural education
- the participation of youth in continental dialogue
- the protection of indigenous communities and their knowledge
- the promotion of culture as a path toward peace and integration
A call to the world
This Manifesto is an invitation.
An invitation to young people to walk, learn, and transform.
An invitation to institutions to support, protect, and accompany.
An invitation to artists, educators, and thinkers to lend their voices.
An invitation to humanity to remember that we come from ancient paths—and we are still walking them.
We continue walking
The Inka Route does not end in 2027.
It is part of a longer journey that began centuries ago and continues today through new generations willing to listen, learn, and build bridges between cultures.
Those who subscribe to this Manifesto do so with the conviction that another way of inhabiting the world is possible, guided by memory, respect, and shared responsibility.
The Inka Route calls you.
Walk with us.
👉 The international call for the selection of participants will be announced from Mexico City on June 21, 2026.
