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\vindow being exceptional in ancient Cuzco.

Here are also

ound the foundation of several

rooms and a terraee,; the style of this room dif–

ers from1that of the exterior walls, and

evident that they were constructed at ·a later date.

The. style of the exterior walls is more remote

and may be used as a standard of comparis'On

· other ruins of .the same period.

Popular tradition asserts that Colccampata

•

~nas

the residence of the first Inca, Manco Ca–

pac. After his death

became the storage house

or Cuzco, in its -large rooms being

the

grain in "ccolcas" ' or specially built receptacles.

Upon the esplanade in front are still held the

agricultura! fe tivals;

su~h ~s

those of sowing

and harves in · in

l ich the Inca

ormerly took .

the Ieading part.

At the tim

h Spa · h Conquest, this

ancient Inca dwelling was tho residence of one

of t:hle last descendants of the Incas, PAULLU IN–

CA, who occupied an important place in the his–

tory of the first twenty years of the conquest. He

was

~ho

ounded a.t his expense the church

which

to~;ay

stands at one side of those ruins,

being called "San Cristobal" in honor of its

patron

~aint.

Later

became the residence of

,the Inca of Vilcabamba, Sairi Tupac, to whom it

\vas granted by the Spani1ards when Sairí Tupac

renounced his woodland domain, and agreed to

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