Discover Sacsayhuaman in Cusco, Peru

The Incan ruins of Sacsayhuaman are a must when visiting Cusco, Peru.

Sacsayhuaman is one of the most amazing Incan architectural sites. Overlooking the city of Cusco, these magnificent ruins served an important military function, yet they also had spaces dedicated to recreation and cultural ceremonies. Like many Incan constructions, the walls are made of massive and irregularly shaped stones that fit together perfectly. Learn about the masterful Incan architecture, and don’t miss the incredible views of Cusco below.
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[coolranch]

"This beautiful place behind me is called sexy woman"

[ronnyshallam]

My teeth has more gaps than those rock placements

[etchalaco]

THE INCA BUILT SACSAYHUAMAN

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“Of how Inca Yupanqui (Pachacutec) founded the Royal house of the Sun on a hill on top of Cuzco, to the northern part, and which the Spaniards commonly know as Fortress and of its admirable building and huge stones which can be seen there.”
Cieza de Leon (Official Chronicler of the Spanish Crown)- El Señorio de los Incas




Garcilazo de la Vega even gives the names of the architects: Huallpa Rimachi Inca, Inca Maricanchi, Acahuana and Calla Chunchuy.



"the buildings...the INCAS turned into fortresses, temples, into roads...were many and required excessive work as evidenced today by the ruins and remains left in Cuzco, "
Father Jose Acosta XVI century chronicle- Jesuist priest who crossed the Andes learning about Peru. He learned quechua and founded colleges.




Recently archaeologists have found a Killke culture ceramica and a temple of "rustic" architecture from the 12 century and even an Inca statues, metal objects, funerary niches, remains of andean camelids, andean textiles and even an irrigations system underneath Sacsayhuaman. This system supplied the city of Cusco with water and there is even an Inca road used to give maintenance to the system and a systems of terracing underneath it. The aquaduct is even mentioned in the chronicles of Juan Polo de Ondegardo y Zarate who wrote about it in 1571.

By the 12 century at the time the Killke and before the Inca in the Cusco valley Sacsayhuman was only underground "rustic" architecture as well as canals and funerary niches, no sign of even the 20% of what remains today.


The Wari empire ruled the Cusco region for 600 to 1100 AD and there is absolutely no evidence of them in Sacsayhuman.


The primitive Chankas raided Cusco and made the Inca ran for their lives before the arrival of Pachacutec. How was this possible if such a megalithic temple as Sacsayhuaman had been occupied by the Inca? It would have been impenetrable and the Inca would not have ran for their lives to the Altiplano.

[anuragdahal]

Is somebody here after reading fingerprints of the gods?

[jdmran]

these megaliths are not Incan.the incas found these ruins and tried to finish what cataclysm caused this lost civilization to fall.

[lessecretsdesanciens]

Les RDV d'Antoine #17.1 - Le
mur de Sacsahuaman - l'incroyable construction avec Joss

[ThereductionistBoy]

Do you really believe how it's made? C'mon mate...use your brain...

[adriancarter]

Oh here we go, they rolled the stones there on stone rollers, have they ever found a stone roller, suppose you think the Inca built them as lot older and lost technology.