Chincanas Tours

LOCATION

The  archeological  site of choquequirao, is located on the right  bank of the river Apu_

rimac, to 3104 M.  A.  S.  L. In a hillside of

the same name, near the snowy mountains

of  Ccoriwayrachma,  Salkantay.  Politically 

belongs to the district of Santa Teresa, the 

Convention Province, Department Cusco. 

 

SHORT HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

 

The  most  accepted  hypothesis  on  the  construction of Choquequirao contends that this was  between  the second half of  the fifteenth century and early decades of the sixteenth, when the Incas begin the conquest of new territories in the region Antisuyo, an area inhabited by Indians antis. Since that time was an important citadel that served not only political and social, but also economic, becoming a hub of a fluid exchange of goods between the coast and the mountains.

 

DESCRIPTION ARCHITECTURAL

 

Choquequirao covers a wide area that has placed more than 30 archaeological sites.It corresponds to an Inca citadel comprising various sectors with different duties, which communicated with the main square by pedestrian pavements.

 

The remains show that the citadel was abandoned suddenly and includes temples, houses and real popular, deposits or qolqas, kallancas, usnho ceremonial workshops, sources and channels, cultivation terraces, dormitories for mitimaes and people in transit and residence for a permanent population Farmers distributed in the following sectors: