TIPÓN & PIQUILLAQTA

TIPON.-Tipon was a centre for the worship of water. The irrigation system was unusual in that it featured deep, vertical channels in the terrace walls. The system  was fed by a natural spring from the sacred mountain known as Pachatusan which flows to this day.

PIQUILLAQTA.- This is a huge sprawling site, interesting because it is the only ruin of a pre-Inca city in the Cusco region. It is attributed to the Wari culture, which emerged in the central highlands near present-day Ayacucho, flourished around 1000 AD, and may ultimately have been overwhelmed by the Incas.