El Altiplano
The Altiplano was the site of several pre-Columbian cultures, including the Chiripa, Tiawanaku and the Inca Empire. Spain conquered the region in the 16th century.
Latitude: 21° 33′ 9,618″ S
Longitude: 67° 52′ 30,378″ W
For at least 3000 years this land on the Peruvian Andes have been the stage of the complexity and ingenious of the Andean evolution.
The Incas build in Cusco their administrative and religious center of a vast territory that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands. Before the arriving of the Spanish conquistadors the Inca Empire included Peru and Bolivia, most of what is now Ecuador and a large portion of what is today Chile, north of the Maule River.
Today you can find the urban structure and the walls of the imperial city but most of the Spanish temples monasteries and manor houses were built over the Inca city
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