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Eastern Section

The mo t important ruin

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esignated "the street of

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acades '. It

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crossed to right and lef

t

by

other shorter streets

of purely Inca design

the most original bei1 g

the one called "Siete Culebras" (Seven Snakes),

and another is known as Hatunrumiyocc.

In the little street of Siete Culebras is an In–

ca wall running toward the Plaza of the

aza–

r nles with

seven

mall

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carv d

in

higb relief upon the stones; these carvings hav

a symbolic significance; they are mblems of

the

edifice; they tell of the tribes wl ich cons-

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