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The Archaeological Group of Choquequirao is located geographically in the South Latitude 13° 32', Longitude West 72° 44', starting from the Meridian of Grenwich. Their altitude reaches the 3,033 m.a.s.l. politically, it is located in the jurisdiction of Santa Teresa en La Convención Department of the Cusco. Due to be a circuit of rigorous adventure, in the one in route to Choquequirao is not hotels neither harbor. However, ideal areas exist in order to camp, although they don't have basic services.
The place of Chiquisca, the beach Rosalinda (there is a cabin for the travelers) and Marampata, is appropriate to arm the tents and to put the bags of sleeping. In the one in route to Choquequirao the stars are not in the facades of the hotels, but rather they are in the sky, looking after the dream of the travelers. |
In the town of Cachora rustic inns exist that can serve to plan the adventure (to rent donkeys and horses, to make the last purchases, etc.) or to recover forces after the long one to bustle of four days.
Choquequírao was refuge of those denominated "Last Incas of Vilcabamba" or Inca of the Resistance that were located in the area starting from 1536, directed by Manco Inca and his brother Inca Paullo, children of the Inca Waskar.
At the beginning of the present century an outstanding interest was presented to discover Inca cities in the forest brow. This way in 1,909, informed by the Prefect of Apurímac, it arrived to the area the North American Historian Hiram Bingham, prior to the scientific discovery of Machupicchu.
The Archaeological Monument of Choquequirao corresponds to an Inca city conformed by several dispersed sectors with diverse functions that communicated with the main square by pedestrian sidewalks.
The vestiges show that the city suddenly was abandoned; the urban conception follows the theoretical and conceptual drawing of the city of the Cusco, temples, houses, deposits or qolqas, kalankas, ceremonial Ushno , shops, sources and channels, cultivation andenerías, bedrooms for mitimaes and people in traffic and residence for a permanent population of farmers, distributed in the following well-known sectors: Superior square (Hanan) that Occupies the superior part of the group of the city; for the east side the square is defined by the temple Hanan of two levels next to is located the entrance of the main channel of water of ceremonial and domestic use that circulates for a vertical channel, two sources Paqcha and terraces (andenes) that continue toward the sector of the qolqa and the main square; in the west it is framed by a wall railing of half height.
Choquequirao
