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Kuélap, Perú

            Kuélap is a magnificent mountaintop fortress and city consisting of about 420 mostly circular buildings, offering living quarters for thousands of residents, built by the Chachapoya culture. Construction began around 600, and the site was occupied into the early colonial period, around 1550. The Incas conquered the Chachapoya culture around 1475, but there are few traces of the Inca culture at this site. The Spanish appear to have had little interest in the site.

Kuélap sits on a remote mountain ridge in the Amazonian cloud forest at an altitude of 3000 meters. The fortress is about 600 meters long and 100 meters wide, and it is completely surrounded by a stone wall that is 20 meters high in most places. It is unclear who their enemies were; perhaps they had to defend against the Huari (Wari) people. The space behind the walls was filled in so the city sits on a man-made platform that has different levels. The fill-in material can be clearly seen where the supporting wall is missing. Kuélap is considered the largest stone ruin site in the New World--larger than Machu Picchu.

Taken in: Perú / Amazonas / La Jalca (show map)

Taken on: May 5, 2014

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Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T1i, f/7.1, 1/125 sec, 33mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	33mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
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