Tambo Colorado
Tambo Colorado , also known as Puka Tampu , Pucallacta or Pucahuasi , is a former Inca settlement (around 1450 AD) in what is now the South American state of Peru in the Humay district of the Pisco province . Translated into German, the name means "Rotes Rasthaus".
description
The well-preserved ruin on an area of around two hectares is located on a hill on the right bank of the Río Pisco . It is 28 kilometers away from the Panamericana (227 km) in the direction of Vilcas Huamán . The complex, which consists of six groups of buildings, has long been considered a former garrison in a strategically favorable transit location. However, the settlement probably had more of a civilian meaning, as numerous excavation finds show. The assumption of a purely military use has since been considered obsolete. The walls are 70 cm thick throughout and form a grid of cells that surround a spacious ceremonial square. One of the buildings is considered a bathhouse, another a palace, they have several ventilation courtyards. As is customary for these buildings, the adobe buildings were mostly painted red and yellow and constructed with many trapezoidal shapes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Seeler: Peru and Bolivia - Indian cultures, Inca ruins and baroque colonial splendor of the Andean states . In: DuMont art travel guide . 1st edition. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-4786-3 , p. 158 f .
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Coordinates: 13 ° 42 ′ 19 ″ S , 75 ° 49 ′ 45 ″ W.