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CUZCO:

THE

HISTORICAL

AND

MONUMENTAL

CITY OF PERU

entranee to the so-ealled .Chicana Grande, an immense subterranean

passageway which, according to general 1belief, paissed under Cu.reo

and

~onneeted

with the Ccoricancha (Santo DCJIIDlingo). There is

a smaller Ohincaña whieh can be entered easily for a distanee of

about :

fi.ve

hundred ste;ps from the a.forementioned, whose forma–

tion appears natural.

is possible that these Chincanas (where–

in it is quite possible to become lost) were used as places of

worship and dedicated to subterranean divinities.

is belie'ved

that in the Jarger Chicana are hidden the treasures of the Incas.

All

these rocks with deeorations, abll!lld.antly foll!Dd

in the

Rodaidero and regions of the same geological f-0rmation, were

ide>ls, ealled by the Incas Muchchaderos or Mochaderos, literally

meauiug "Lugares de be air" (ki

ing ]?laces), amd whiich the

Indiana even

'a.

thi

ate kiss

espeetfu'lly and religiously_

given br.ood

e of mon·ey it

a:J. o so respected, although

the custom is no

ssiug, especially whem nearing Cuzcco.

Within1

radh1s of

our

gues of

U!Oeo, Polo de Ondegarde

co un tJed thirty-three tomos (or mochadero ) , the half of which

have been ideníifiied.

These were the origiinal soi'tes of eertain

rare fonnations of the earth 's surface.

Three kilometers friom Rodaidero to the rnorth

i1:1

the Chaicán

(or Chaean

(meaning bridge), an ancient II11Caic reservoir sup·

plyin the eastern part of the populace by means of an aqueduct,

a part of whieh i utilizad even today.

TAMPU MACHCHAI and PUCARA. -

Five k.i.lometers from

Rodaderio, (ozr six kilometer.s from Cui;co), will be -fOiimd the rui'Ils

of this great idol, very little visited by the touristbut whieh is

well worth seeing.

From Rodadero tak.a a road leading to the

east through an arroya. Several hills and pl'ain¡:i W'.ill be passed

plan.ted

pasture which must have been the grazing landa

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