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Kuelap
Fortress of Kuelap
Chachapoya (Middle Horizon to Inca)·Chachapoya·🇵🇪 Amazonas, Peru
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About Kuelap
Immense walled city on Andean ridge (500–1570 CE) of Chachapoya 'Warriors of the Clouds' with limestone dry-stone walls 19 m high, 3 entries tapering to 1 person, circular houses with zigzag friezes.
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History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.500 CE foundation, 1100 peak
- Period
- Chachapoya (Middle Horizon to Inca)
- Culture
- Chachapoya
- Purpose
- Fortified hilltop city
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c.500 CE foundation, 1100 peak
Initial construction
c. 1622 CE
Major expansion
Location
Where it is
6.4170° S · 77.9230° W · 3000 m
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