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Showing posts with label SOUTHVALLEY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOUTHVALLEY. Show all posts

Monday 29 April 2019

SOUTHERN VALLEY CUSCO INFORMATION

SOUTHERN VALLEY CUSCO TOUR
It was an important place and a major shrine, where the water was worshiped with the care and veneration with which the Incas treated this element. Although there are still mysteries to be unraveled, the calm of the place, the sound of the water and the sensation of being close to the gods subjugate the visitor.


The main sectors that make up Tipón are:
Royal Enclosures and Gardens
Beautiful rooms and gardens built on the base of megalithic stone blocks constituted the Royal House that Wiracocha had built as a home for his father Yahuar Huaca. This is the most beautiful and wide group of the complex, has beautiful fountains and channels that until today continue to pour water, which emerges from mysterious and secret underground channels. An ovoid construction like a tower is located south of the platforms. From this place you can see the entire ravine with a breathtaking view.
Intiwatana
Beautiful rooms of first quality with exquisite trapezoidal niches, from where you can visually include almost all Tipón, are located a few meters from the main enclosures. They are located higher up on a mountainous elevation that protects the whole.
Minor Enclosures
A personality of some importance, but who did not belong to the nobility, must have lived in these precincts. The rooms, located almost 1 km. of the Intiwatana, they are of lower quality, but in spite of this they show importance and solemnity. They are initially built of stone and finished with adobe.
Viewpoint of Cusco
In the northern part of the archaeological site is a significant orogenic prominence that was, in ancient times, an important site for observation and signals. It has been called Cruz Moqo which means "summit where there is a cross" and at the same time QosqoQhawarina which means "from where Cusco can be seen". It has been called like that because from this place you can see the western part of the city of Cusco. It was a place of abundant population during the Incas, home of personalities with broad political and economic powers.
The wall
It is possible that the area of ​​Tipón was occupied by manors that waged wars of many years and to make sure, they built colossal and extensive defensive walls, which undoubtedly took many years of work. Later the wall lacked object because all the regional kingdoms happened to comprise of the great Empire of the Tahuantinsuyo. It is worth noting the presence of the so-called "zarunas" or ridge steps that appear on the walls of the platforms, in the form of huge lithic nails arranged as stairs, which were built to avoid occupying the space with the stairways. Archaeological group corresponding to the Inca period in which you can see an exceptional irrigation system with horizontal vertical irrigation channels on stepped terraces, the water flows from the sub floor to a source from which it is distributed by the mentioned channels. It was an important agricultural production center.

Wednesday 19 September 2018

SOUTH VALLEY OF CUSCO


This Tour Starting with the visit to the beautiful Inca water temple at Tipon. From here you carry on to the extensive Pre-Inca site of Pikillacta which was constructed by the Wari culture who occupied the Cusco region before the arrival of the Inca and finally visit the church of Andahuaylillas which is known as the Sistine Chapel of the Americas due to its ornate decorations.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: 

 The archaeological site of Tipón is located near Oropesa in the community of Choquepata, 27 km away. to the southeast of Cusco, next to the Cusco-Puno highway. It contains enclosures, terraces and an intact canal.
 Tipón is in the list of the 16 most important archaeological sites for the tourist that visits Cusco. 
 Piquillacta is an archaeological site formed by the remains of a pre-Hispanic city. It is located in the district of Lucre, province of Quispicanchi, department of Cusco, southeast of the city of Cusco, in the basin of the Lucre River and Vilcanota.
 Piquillacta was one of the most important administrative centers of the Wari culture, between the VI to IX centuries of our era, and represents the planned wari urbanism par excellence. 
 Piquillacta is an archaeological site formed by the remains of a pre-Hispanic city. It is located in the district of Lucre, province of Quispicanchi, department of Cusco, southeast of the city of Cusco, in the basin of the Lucre River and Vilcanota.
 Piquillacta was one of the most important administrative centers of the Wari culture, between the VI to IX centuries of our era, and represents the planned wari urbanism par excellence.