KALLANKA

There is an extensive “kallanka” with six doors, facing east with its doors facing a finely finished terrace. Attached are a series of small rooms that can be considered service rooms. All this is on top of a complex of terraces organized in a very harmonious way and that have been partially restored.

Although it is a very beautiful site, the usual materials used by the Cusqueños for their palaces and temples were not used. Those were built with well carved ashlars, which in more than one case were sent from far away places, when the raw material was absent. Here the construction materials are local and there are no ashlars. Everything else, in technical and artistic terms, corresponds to elite Inca models. The walls of the buildings were covered with mud stucco and painted, in the same way as the buildings that Wayna Qhapaq had built in Yucay for his hacienda.

These are indicators that we are in front of different Inca complexes, when we compare them with Pisaq, Machu Picchu or Ollantaytambo. Surely they served different functions, but they were also built by different architects who, although they followed the same traditions, had different tastes and techniques.