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Restos de la ciudadela inca a 3000 metros de altura. Esto corresponde al sector de la plaza principal de las ruinas de Choquequirao.
Ruta Cachora - Totora, Perú.
Panorámica de las ruinas incas de Choquequirao desde el sector de la Plataforma Ceremonial o Usnu, a 3000 metros de altura.
Ruta Cachora - Totora, Perú.
Mientras ascendíamos, la vista al valle iba adquiriendo cada vez una magnificencia mayor. En ningún otro sitio había contemplado yo tal belleza y magnificencia como la que aquí se desplegaba. El blanco torrente del Apurímac rugía a través del cañón a miles de pies bajo de nosotros. Aquellas laderas, que no eran precipicios abruptos o que no mostraban cicatrices de recientes aludes, se veían cubiertas con verde follaje y lujuriosas flores. Desde las cimas vecinas a nosotros, otras pendientes se levantaban a seis mil pies hasta los glaciares y picos cubiertos de nieve. A la distancia hasta donde alcanzaban los ojos, una masa de cerros, valles, selvas tropicales y picos nevados mantenía la imaginación en una especie de encantamiento. Tal fue nuestra recompensa mientras permanecimos jadeando junto a la senda, al llegar al punto más elevado.
Hiram Bingham (relato del viaje a Choquequirao)
La ruta de Choquequirao a Maizal, sube por el filo de la izquierda (sobre las ruinas con sol a un lado y sombra al otro), donde a 3200 cruza hacia el norte, cortando un abismo sobre el río Apurímac de unos 1750 mts. de desnivel.
Acá se ve gran parte del conjunto de las ruinas de Choquequirao, desde la plataforma ceremonial donde existe una amplia visión de todo el cañón del Apurímac, hasta prácticamente el pueblo de Cachora.
Ruta Cachora - Totora, Perú.
Everyone knows and talks about Machu Picchu, but Peru has much more to offer! For example Choquequirao - another Incan city. While in Peru, we made an effort to see it and it was so worth it! And believe me it is an effort as this city is surrounded by deep river valleys - just like this one. Seen from Choquequirao itself.
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Choquequirao (of Quechua chuqi, gold, and de k'iraw, cradle, that is to say: "cradle of gold"), are the archaeological remains of an Inca city located between the foothills of the snowy Salcantay, and under the jurisdiction of the district of Santa Teresa, Province of La Convención, Department of Cuzco, southern Peru.
Choquequirao is known as the "sacred sister" of Machu Picchu because of the structural and architectural similarity with it. Recently, being partially excavated, it has awakened the interest of the Peruvian government to recover the complex even more and make it a more accessible alternative for travelers interested in learning more about the Inca culture.
Choquequirao (of Quechua chuqi, gold, and de k'iraw, cradle, that is to say: "cradle of gold"), are the archaeological remains of an Inca city located between the foothills of the snowy Salcantay, and under the jurisdiction of the district of Santa Teresa, Province of La Convención, Department of Cuzco, southern Peru.
Choquequirao is known as the "sacred sister" of Machu Picchu because of the structural and architectural similarity with it. Recently, being partially excavated, it has awakened the interest of the Peruvian government to recover the complex even more and make it a more accessible alternative for travelers interested in learning more about the Inca culture.
Choquequirao (of Quechua chuqi, gold, and de k'iraw, cradle, that is to say: "cradle of gold"), are the archaeological remains of an Inca city located between the foothills of the snowy Salcantay, and under the jurisdiction of the district of Santa Teresa, Province of La Convención, Department of Cuzco, southern Peru.
Choquequirao is known as the "sacred sister" of Machu Picchu because of the structural and architectural similarity with it. Recently, being partially excavated, it has awakened the interest of the Peruvian government to recover the complex even more and make it a more accessible alternative for travelers interested in learning more about the Inca culture.
Choquequirao es reconocida como la hermana de Machu Picchu. Ambos lugares tienen muchas similitudes. Sin embargo Choquequirao es uno de los asentamientos incas más remotos en los Andes del Perú. Y aún no son muchos los turistas los que la visitan.
Is one of the most remote Inca ruins in the Peruvian Andes and is a second "Lost City of the Incas" after Machu Picchu. Choquequirao means "Cradle of Gold" in Quechua. It sits 3085m/10121f above sea level and situated amongst the spurs of the Salkantay Mountain Range above the Valley of the Rio Apurimac (1750m/5741f). This city is similar in structure and architecture to Machu Picchu. First excavation started in the 1970s. The complex is 1800 hectares, of which only 0% is excavated.
Desde uno de los miradores de Marampata, después de la subida de la gran cuesta desde el río Apurímac (1400 mts de desnivel). Dentro de ese bosque aún quedan ruinas por descubrir.
En grande se divisa parte de nuestro grupo por ahí.
Ruta Cachora - Totora.
Perú.
La ruta tiene una longitud de 64 kilómetros con una altitud inicial de 2.900 m y una altura máxima de 3.050 m. Si bien solo hay un camino, la ruta se puede dividir de varias maneras, pero he trazado la ruta más común de cuatro días. Se puede extender fácilmente a cinco días, lo que le dará un día completo para explorar las ruinas y disfrutar de su tiempo en las montañas.
The ruins at Choquequirao are comprised of buildings and terraces at different levels from Sunch'u Pata to the truncated hill top. The hill top has been leveled and ringed with stones to form a platform of 30x50 meters wide.
Choquequirao trek four days takes you to the last refuge of the Incas considered as such for all the vestiges that exist in the place, such as ceremonial plazas, warehouses, houses and many agricultural terraces that suggest inhabited by many people who fled of the Spanish conquerors. Choquequiraro is a significant archaeological site very interest full of history and mystery.
The city of Choquequirao are located at 2,987 meters (9,800 feet) above sea level in a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes. A visit to these ancient of ruins means that you are in for a real adventure. Unlike it’s neighbor Machu Picchu, there are no trains or buses that will bring you here. To reach this important piece of Incan history, you’ll need two legs and the will to endure the steep trail of the Choquequirao Trek.
Machu Picchu es, con mucho, la ruina más famosa de Perú, y posiblemente tanto de América del Norte como del Sur. Sin embargo, el Valle del Inca tiene mucho más que ofrecer a los conocedores de la arqueología más exigentes. La joya de la corona de estos otros sitios pasados por alto es la "hermana" de Machu Picchu, Choquequirao, y la infame Choquequirao Hike. A diferencia de Machu Picchu, Choquequirao no fue explorado y excavado a fondo hasta la década de 1970.
High on the Quriwayrachina mountain range of Peru lies the Choquequirao archaeological site , and the only way in or out is on foot. Now, this trek is not for the fainthearted, but it’s almost unsurpassed in Peru.
With sweeping views of the Andes and opportunities to observe local plant and wild life, including the sacred Andean condor, this trek is a must for any serious hiker.
Este circuito nos ofrece una formidable caminata pasando por varios ecosistemas y disfrutando hermosas vistas de los nevados de la Cordillera de Vilcabamba y con descensos hasta el profundo Cañón del río Apurímac.
www.intupacusco.com/tours-alternativos-cusco/tour-choqueq...
Larger than Machu Picchu, Choquequirao rests practically desolate at the top of the deepest canyon in America. Tourists do not arrive here in comfortable trains, but real adventurers who, after days of strenuous walking, find the absolute silence of its mysterious ruins.
www.arqueologiadelperu.com/choquequirao-field-report-2015/
A short narrative of visits to Machu Picchu’s sister ceremonial site in April and November of 2015.
I am just back from accompanying a small, interested group from US Embassy staff in Lima to Choquequirao, the remote, mountain Inca royal estate that has been a research focus and my passion for several decades. It was an educated, well informed gang, exhibiting great interest, sense of humor and fondness for happy hours — totally fun…
We hiked much of the steep trail but also rode part of the way on good, solid mules, which my Quechua speaking Cusco business and research partner, Edwin Duenas, lined up from friends at the old colonial town of Cachora.
We brought along US Army McClellan saddle copies that Edwin and I had made in Cusco some years back. They have a few, some might say, wimpy, modifications such as a comfortable sheepskin over seat and double rigging for steep climbs and descents. My cavalry ancestors likely would not have found these modifications unnecessary.
While revisiting two major outlying sites after some years, Capuliyoc and the Casa de Cascada group, we made several interesting new observations described below.
Passing through Lima on return, I gave a presentation on “Incas and extreme archaeology” with slides and a talk at the elegant, modernistic Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano building in Miraflores, hosted by the American Women’s Literary Club. The clubʼs dynamic Kathi Huber and friends put it all together.
Lima friend and sometime Choquequirao guide, Humberto Medrano generously housed me nearby at his comfortable, small boutique lodging, Hotel de Autor in downtown Miraflores.
Choquequirao
Observations
Not much has changed at Choquequirao since 2014. It was good to see that they are keeping Vince Lee’s Ridge Group, Pikiwasi cleared.
Almost all of the Casa de Cascada group has been recently cleared, revealing a very interesting complex with more extensive water features than we had previously surveyed.
Of particular interest are in-place slate cornices indicated in the diagram and clearly visible in the recent photo. We have suggested that these may indicate a style imposed by workers brought in from Cachapoyas in Northern Peru by the Inca builders.
Cliff hanging Capuliyoc, perched thousands of feet precariously above the deep Apurimac gorge is now completely cleared with a good, direct trail leading from the Cascada Group.
We believe that this was a prime, micro-climate growing facility for ceremonially important coca in imperial Inca times.
With ample warm, upslope breeze form the deep Apurimac and maximum sun light, the Capuliyoc terraces were ideally suited for growing one of the empireʼs most important crops.
Prepared at camp by our seasoned (no pun intended) Cusqueño chef, Pancho, lunch was packed down the hill to Capuliiyoc, artfully laid out for a planned midday arrival.
We enjoyed a spectacular lunch, attended by an uninvited, but most welcome and very curious, updraft hovering condor.
Even the lurking, biting gnats were awed, cautiously keeping their distance from the unexpected feeding opportunity.
Their ancient ancestors must have has a bad experience with the tougher Inca residents?
Curiously, the site administration has renamed Capuliyoc something unrecognizable. No one was working there at the time to question about the name change.
Choquequirao is now almost completely cleared with reasonable reinforcement of unstable walls and necessary reconstruction accomplished.
The complex stands revealed in much of its ancient splendor. Only missing are the tall, Ichu grass covered roofs and carefully plastered, rose painted walls that would have given Choquequirao a majestic, otherworldly appearance, appropriate for a sacred Andean ceremonial center.
Numbers of visitors are up slightly, some 15 to 30 per day. Several small, guided groups and a few independent, intrepid individuals trekked through during the days we were there. The groups are mainly low-end hiking tours speeding through Choquequirao on the way to Machu Picchu via the new road head at Yanama.
I came to realize that a new tourist focus is to do challenging treks as quickly as possible. The Choquequirao trek is being promoted as one of Peru’s most challenging, becoming something for adventure collectors to check off. Sadly, there seems little interest in visiting or understanding anything but Machu Picchu, which may be becoming mainly a ‘check off’ as well.
The coolly-dressed, trendy looking, trek guides don’t seem to have a clue what the ruins are about except that it was “the last city of the Incas,” the latest misinformation going around.
Disturbing was the unprofessional and even dangerous service that several of these guiding companies exhibited. Clients are cut loose to hike alone with no apparent plan to assure safe arrival or preparedness in the event of emergency or illness.
Excessive drinking among staff was evident. We came upon a cook or perhaps a guide passed out alone on the trail. I immediately initiated a first responder medical assessment: vital signs, injuries, bleeding but found all normal.
It appears he had just come from a nearby roadside stop which sells chicha mixed with cañaso, local white lightning, having passed out. We could only leave him in place.
Had he fallen over another foot or two more, he would have rolled off into oblivion, hundreds of vegetation-covered feet below, not to be found until the condors circled.
We later informed his wranglers setting up camp. They just rolled their eyes and shrugged, not their concern or problem.
There goes the neighborhood.
Now the Andean rains of December have started in earnest. I look forward to the next return and ongoing adventure in April. GZ
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Gary Ziegler is a field archaeologist with a geology background, a mountaineer and explorer who has spent a lifetime finding and studying remote sites in the Vilcabamba range of Peru’s southern Andes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Explorers Club. He has featured in documentary films for the BBC, Discovery Channel, Science and History Channels. His work has been published in numerous professional journals, and he is co-author of “Machu Picchu’s Sacred Sisters: Choquequirao and Llactapata.” He has taught at Colorado College and Peru’s national university, San Marcos. He was awarded the title “Distinguished Lecturer” at NASA’s Marshal Space Center in 2013. His home base is the 4000-acre Bear Basin Ranch in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of southern Colorado. He can be contacted at: info @ adventurespecialists.organd www.adventurespecialists.org
In Choquequirao the Incas of the Vilcabamba valley took refuge after the arrival of the Spanish, in their last attempt to reconquer their kingdom. Its name means "Cradle of Gold" and its beauty and greatness is compared to Machu Picchu.
Getting to Choquequirao is not easy: it takes 4 to 5 days of hiking and you have to camp along the way, but the reward upon arrival is indescribable.
During this tour, we will have the opportunity to enjoy the magnificent ruins of the Inca city of Choquequirao , known as "the hidden Machu Picchu". This historic place is located in the Apurímac river canyon, considered one of the most spectacular places in South America. This experience includes enthusiastic local guides who are passionate about showcasing these incredible landscapes.
Choquequirao Trek 4 Days , When this magnificent city was rediscovered, nobody visited it because we already had Machu Picchu. A historian assumed that Choquequirao was the Golden City, and later it was proven that it was the last refuge of the Incas before the Peruvian coast.
Partindo do pequeno vilarejo de Cachora, a trilha que leva às ruínas de Choquequirao promete subidas constantes e descidas vertiginosas, mudanças de altitude e belas paisagens. Um desafio certamente recompensador. Saiba mais em miradas.com.br
Dejando el pequeño pueblo de Cachora, el camino que lleva hasta las ruinas de Choquequirao ofrece un ascenso constante y bajadas vertiginosas, cambios de altitud y bonitos paisajes. Un desafío que, sin duda, vale la pena.
Leaving the small village of Cachora, the trekking that leads to the Inca ruins of Choquequirao promisses constant ascent and vertiginous descent, change of altitud and incredible landscapes. Certainly, a fulfilling challenge.