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We are leaving the coast and heading east, to discover the Chachapoya culture. We can see the ancient walls of their settlements along the cliffs and crags, totally inaccessible. Without a doubt, Kuelap is the most astonishing of all the Chachapoya cities. The city walls are 600 metres long, and between 10 and 20 metres high. They are built of blocks of limestone weighing up to three tonnes. Kuelap is rectangular in shape, and at one side looks down into a chasm almost 1,000 metres deep. The city covers an area of 60,000 square metres. Within the walls lies a city much like any other, with 420 circular–shaped houses, with conical, pointed roofs of straw.

The archaeological excavations that are being carried out have so far not unravelled the mystery of this strange mountain civilisation. But work continues. The study of the bodies, and the pottery, will be vital in understanding the Chachapoyas.
On the sacred mountain of La Petaca, there are over one hundred tombs in which they laid to rest their mummified dead.
It is not known how they were able to construct them high up on the sheer rock face.
The Chachapoya mummies are the product of a relatively sophisticated process. Thanks to this process, and the cold, dry atmosphere of the mountain-side tombs in which they were placed,
they are extraordinarily well conserved.

And finally, the Incas arrived! Their Empire, the Tahuantinsuyo, extended from what is now Ecuador, to Argentina and Chile, absorbing all previous cultures.
They became the masters of the Andes. They built astonishing cities, like the sacred Machupichu, abandoned since the arrival of the Spanish. It is not known with certainty who lived there, but according to legend, it was inhabited by holy virgins and supreme priests who were sorcerers from the other world, and who, at Intiguatana, their astronomical observatory, were capable of tying down the great Inti, the supreme Sun God.

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