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Cuzco Region
Tipon, Moon temple and Wiracocha palace are stone masonry archeological conglomerates located in Cuzco Peru region.
Tipon Peru apparently is a huge Inca water ceremonial complex with pyramidal terraces, canals and artificial water falls as well a number of buildings with many small and big niches that points as a ceremonial site with royal residence.
There are also many trails with different type of stair of different number of steps and artificial cascades that gives to this place a sense of a water paradise.
Judging by the size, it was a place built to receive a great number of participants to play a part on certain date of their calendar festivities. Tipon is located about 24 kilometers South east Cuzco, around 12000 feet high over sea level.
The Moon temple actually is not a just a big temple but a huge area with a great number of shrines with false doors or niches carved in the stone wall of the mountains that gives the impression that it was a complex made of small oratories for individuals or family ceremonies most of then are small stone edifications at the side of a mountain along a creek that passes near by, nevertheless it is also a place great concurrence.
There are also many cave rooms that were cut into the mountain stone with steps that descend to small rooms for particular ceremonies.
In special there is one that has a special altar also carved in the stone that at certain time and date the sun light descends through a whole in the mountain and illuminates the flat top superfine of this ceremonial item.
Wiracocha or Viracocha place complex also was a compound of temples as well storage rooms; most of walls were made with three different construction materials most likely representing the three heavenly levels that Incas thought how the afterlife world was divided.
There are also rows of decorative brick rounded columns whose base is made of stonemasonry and finished in adobe, sun dried mud bricks rather than stone bricks as the base.
Tipon, Moon temple and Wiracocha palace are stone masonry archeological conglomerates located in Cuzco Peru region.
Tipon Peru apparently is a huge Inca water ceremonial complex with pyramidal terraces, canals and artificial water falls as well a number of buildings with many small and big niches that points as a ceremonial site with royal residence.
There are also many trails with different type of stair of different number of steps and artificial cascades that gives to this place a sense of a water paradise.
Judging by the size, it was a place built to receive a great number of participants to play a part on certain date of their calendar festivities. Tipon is located about 24 kilometers South east Cuzco, around 12000 feet high over sea level.
The Moon temple actually is not a just a big temple but a huge area with a great number of shrines with false doors or niches carved in the stone wall of the mountains that gives the impression that it was a complex made of small oratories for individuals or family ceremonies most of then are small stone edifications at the side of a mountain along a creek that passes near by, nevertheless it is also a place great concurrence.
There are also many cave rooms that were cut into the mountain stone with steps that descend to small rooms for particular ceremonies.
In special there is one that has a special altar also carved in the stone that at certain time and date the sun light descends through a whole in the mountain and illuminates the flat top superfine of this ceremonial item.
Wiracocha or Viracocha place complex also was a compound of temples as well storage rooms; most of walls were made with three different construction materials most likely representing the three heavenly levels that Incas thought how the afterlife world was divided.
There are also rows of decorative brick rounded columns whose base is made of stonemasonry and finished in adobe, sun dried mud bricks rather than stone bricks as the base.
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