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Mi viaje a Cusco en Diciembre del 2004.
Sacsaihuaman o Sacsayhuamán (quechua: Saksaq Waman, 'Halcón satisfecho' )? es una fortaleza inca hoy en ruinas ubicadas dos kilómetros al norte de la ciudad de Cusco, en Perú.
Sacsayhuamán fue construida originalmente con propósitos militares para defenderse de tribus invasoras que amenazaban al Imperio Inca. La construcción fue iniciada por el Inca Pachacutec, con posterioridad a 1438. Quien mejor describe el monumento es el cronista Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, quién señala que su construcción duró unos 50 años hasta el período de Wayna Qhapaq; estaba concluido a la llegada de los conquistadores.
Desde la fortaleza se observa una singular vista panorámica de los entornos incluyendo la ciudad del Cusco.
Cusco was the site of the historic capital of the Inca Empire and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1983 by UNESCO. It is a major tourist destination and receives almost 2 million visitors a year.
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Se aprecia la fotografía de una humilde campesina en la localidad de Paucartambo, al sur este de Cusco. Localidad muy conocida por albergar a la Virgen del Carmen cuya festividad se realiza cada 15 de julio de cada año.
Saqsaywaman
PERU: Cusco
Cusco
16-Jun-2013
J.C. Abbott & K.K. Abbott
From Wikipedia:
Saksaywaman, Sasawaman, Saksawaman, Sasaywaman, Saqsaywaman[1][2] or Saksaq Waman (Quechua waman falcon[3] or variable hawk,[4] hispanicized spellings Sacsayhuamán, Sacsayhuaman, Sacsahuaman, Saxahuaman and others) is a walled complex on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the former capital of the Inca Empire. Like many Inca constructions, the complex is made of large polished dry stone walls, with boulders carefully cut to fit together tightly without mortar.
The site, at an altitude of 3,701 m, was added as part of the city of Cusco to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983.
Located on a steep hill that overlooks the city, it contains an impressive view of the valley to the southeast. Surface collections of pottery at Saksaywaman indicate that the earliest occupation of the hill top dates back at least a millennium.[citation needed]
Because of its location high above Cusco and its immense terrace walls, this area of Saksaywaman is frequently referred to as a fortress.[5] The importance of its military functions was highlighted in 1536 when Manco Inca lay siege to Cusco.[6] Much of the fighting occurred in and around Saksaywaman as it was critical for maintaining control over the city. It is clear from descriptions of the siege, as well as from excavations at the site, that there were towers on its summit as well as a series of other buildings. For example Pedro Sancho, who visited the complex before the siege, mentions the labyrinth-like quality of the complex and the fact that it held a great number of storage rooms filled with a wide variety of items. He also notes that there were buildings with large windows that looked over the city. These structures, like so much of the site, have long since been destroyed.[7]
The large plaza area, capable of holding thousands of people, is well designed for ceremonial activities and several of the large structures at the site may also have been used during rituals. It is also clear from early accounts that the complex held a great number of storage rooms. Pedro Pizarro described storage rooms that were within the complex and which were filled with military equipment.[8]
The best-known zone of Saksaywaman includes its great plaza and its adjacent three massive terrace walls. The stones used in the construction of these terraces are among the largest used in any building in prehispanic America and display a precision of fitting that is unmatched in the Americas.[9] The stones are so closely spaced that a single piece of paper will not fit between many of the stones. This precision, combined with the rounded corners of the blocks, the variety of their interlocking shapes, and the way the walls lean inward, is thought to have helped the ruins survive devastating earthquakes in Cuzco. The longest of three walls is about 400 meters. They are about 6 meters tall. The estimated volume of stone is over 6,000 cubic meters. Estimates for the weight of the largest Andesite block vary from 128 tonnes to almost 200 tonnes.[10][11]
Following the siege of Cusco, the Spaniards began to use Saksaywaman as a source of stones for building Spanish Cuzco and within a few years much of the complex was demolished. The site was destroyed block-by-block to build the new governmental and religious buildings of the city, as well as the houses of the wealthiest Spaniards. In the words of Garcilaso de la Vega (1966:471 [1609: Part 1, Book. Bk. 7, Ch. 29]): "to save themselves the expense, effort and delay with which the Indians worked the stone, they pulled down all the smooth masonry in the walls. There is indeed not a house in the city that has not been made of this stone, or at least the houses built by the Spaniards." Today, only the stones that were too large to be easily moved remain at the site.[12]
The view of Cusco while flying back to Lima.
The trip itself went quite while (aside from my cold), but the return leg was a never-ending sequence of issues. Mountain Lodges of Peru (Kuychi Rumi Lodge) lost the bags we left while we were hiking. (And they still haven't been found a week later). Our flight from Cusco to Lima was delay about 90 minutes and on arrival in Lima we discovered they left nearly all the bags back in Cusco. So our luggage was lost twice in two days. Thankfully, almost five hours later we managed to get those bags. Unfortunately, the flight out of Lima was delayed as well and didn't leave until 5 am. To add insult to injury, the Starback at Lima airport was out-of-commission (able to serve neither hot nor cold drinks). In short, it was not the best 48 hours.