Tipón, this picturesque set of terraces over a mountain, long stirways and
stone chanals is located 20 km south of he city of Cusco. Evidence suggests
Tipòn part of a royal hacienda belonging to Inca Yahuar Waqaq, as a place of
worship and agricultural research. An outstanding is the sense of harmony in the
channeling of water via stone structures including aqueducts ( some of which are
underground ), waterfalls and gullies, indicating the Incas’knowledge of
hydraulics was a centre for the worship of the water the irrigation system was
unusual in that it featured deep, vertical channels in the terrace walls. The
system was fed by a natural spring from the sacred mountain knows as Pachatusan
which flows to this day.
PIKILLAQTA .- The unique a huge sprawling site, interesting because it is
the only ruin of a pre-Inca city in the Cusco region. It is attributed to the
Wari culture (500-900 AD), this large urban and cermonial center of almost two
square kilometers was built as a massive set of stone and mud structures on a
hill overlooking the beautiful Lake Lucre or Huacarpay. Pikillaqta or “city of
fleas”, is perhaps the largest pre Inca urban center in the area. It gets its
name from its numerous enclousures ( measuring just 4 meters each ) which, it
would seem, were part of a garrison constructed to protect the site. Wari
culture emerged in the central highlands near present-day Ayacucho,around 1000
AD, and may ultimately have been overwhelmed by the Incas.
Tipón, this picturesque set of terraces over a mountain, long stirways and
stone chanals is located 20 km south of he city of Cusco. Evidence suggests
Tipòn part of a royal hacienda belonging to Inca Yahuar Waqaq, as a place of
worship and agricultural research. An outstanding is the sense of harmony in the
channeling of water via stone structures including aqueducts ( some of which are
underground ), waterfalls and gullies, indicating the Incas’knowledge of
hydraulics was a centre for the worship of the water the irrigation system was
unusual in that it featured deep, vertical channels in the terrace walls. The
system was fed by a natural spring from the sacred mountain knows as Pachatusan
which flows to this day.
