Arqueológico de Chinchero Park
Terraced royal estate whose excavated stone channels and heat-storing walls reveal Inca farming engineering.
This guide to the Arqueológico de Chinchero Park in Cusco puts you on an Inca terrace excavated between 2013 and 2019, where archaeologists searched for what centuries of collapsed walls and drifted soil had buried on Tupac Yupanqui's royal terraces. You'll hear about the stone water channel and the storage enclosure uncovered here, and about how these high-altitude retaining walls were engineered to hold the sun's heat against overnight frost. The guide sets the scene above thirty-seven hundred meters, in a valley where farming, worship and impressing visiting nobles all took place on the same slopes.
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