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ose who

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band cam

from lower Cuzco. Witl out

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pothesis, h w would

it

be possibl

to

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act that

the

ancestry of the

fir st

and secor

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lived in

r

orthern sections, such as

l

olk

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n

l

Korakora?

There ar - re1nains o.f many heauliful

·lonc"'

buildings still,

speoially in the zone to

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L

oí' the Watanai river

b.ut

nothing is

knO\>\·n o

l'

their·

f

ormer owners.

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INTlWASI : r he

venerable T mpl

f

U1

u1t

"\vas built on

a

'mall e1ninence, on the

left

banl~

of

the

V\

atanai river, being separated fro1n.

tl)

.

1

rest of the

cil

l:n

eries of thr-ee terraces .

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so

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t.

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the eas

er

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br ----

sanctu r

J""~i"'>'W· 'C-"t~~

"(Jl

highwa -

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u

tucha.ka

and Rünaj pa111

piL

There was a high conical tower to,vard th

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C"

L–

ern end of

the

rr·emple. Today we find

01

ly a beau–

tiful semicircular base of this tower.

Upon the upper plateau,

some~: hat

oinlilut·

to the Aztec teocalli, were the temples to

U1e

1

uu.

the Moon, Venus, the Lightning, the Rainbovv

a11

l

the constellation Onk'oy or Chok e Chinchai (the

seven kids- Pleiades). The lower slopes cons

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i

tn–

ted the sites

f

or the rooms for th

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