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Centro Mallqui
Upon discovery of the chullpas (mausoleums) at Laguna de los Cóndores in 1996, a massive operation was launched to save the mummies from tomb robbers. With the assistance of Austrian archaeologists, Centro Mallqui was founded to house and study the remains. The museum has four exhibition halls...
Museum
Leymebamba , Peru
Leymebamba , Peru
Laguna de los Cóndores
Mists rise from the sapphire lagoon, enshrouding six chullpas nestled into a cliff above the cloud forest. Here is where 219 souls rested until their removal to Centro Mallqui. In late 1996, a group of farmers clearing land discovered these tombs. A Peruvian-Austrian scientific team began a...
Ruin
Leymebamba , Peru
Leymebamba , Peru
La Congona
Spread out upon a ridge near Leymebamba, La Congona is an as-yet unexcavated llacta (town). About 30 houses with zigzag, rhomboid and step-fret friezes rise out of the heavy bramble vegetation. They are of typical Chachapoya design of the Late Intermediate Period (800-1470 A.D.). You can still...
Ruin
Leymebamba , Peru
Leymebamba , Peru
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