Iskanwaya
Iskanwaya is a pre-Columbian ruin site, which is located on a ledge above the Río Llica in Bolivia , 325 km north of La Paz . The size and age of the ruins exceed the famous Machu Picchu in Peru, but the remains of the settlement are far less well preserved than there.
location
The ruins of Iskanwaya are located on the western edge of the Bolivian Cordillera Real , 250 m above the Río Llica at an altitude of 1672 m . Iskanwaya is close to Aucapata , a small town in the Muñecas province .
Mollo culture
The Iskanwaya ruins go back to the Mollo culture (1145–1425), which preceded the Inca rule. Iskanwaya's construction may date back to the 9th century.
investment
The Iskanwaya settlement was laid out on two steps totaling 60 hectares and was supplied with fresh water. The floor plans of over a hundred buildings with an average of thirteen rooms each have been preserved. The streets of the Iskanwaya settlement ran in an east-west direction, its buildings were laid out rectangularly around inner courtyards, built from blocks of slate connected by clay mortar. The terraced agricultural cultivation areas had an irrigation system.
The UN archaeologist Alvaro R. Fernholz Jemio suspects that Iskanwaya was inhabited by 2,500 to 3,000 people during its heyday.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruins of Iskanwaya ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ancient South America (1994). Karen Olsen Bruhns
- ↑ Iskanwaya: more antiguo que Machu Picchu
Web links
- La Residencia de los hijos de Tiwanaku (Spanish)
- Iskanwaya (Spanish)
Coordinates: 15 ° 29 ′ 41 ″ S , 68 ° 40 ′ 23 ″ W