MAIN PLAZA

From this rectangular plaza one enters, almost imperceptibly, a large pentagonal plaza surrounded by the group of buildings identified as “El Palacio”.

A group of three rooms is on the southwest side and a long “kallanka” of four doors on the west side. The three houses are associated with a fountain made of stone slabs, as a bath, which is in the enclosure of the south end and is fed with water by a fine ditch that leads the liquid from the upper part of the citadel.

The archaeological data are clear in indicating that this is the work of the Incas and that it is part of the urban projects that the rulers of Cusco had in advanced times of their government. Unlike Machu Picchu, which is somehow its peer, it was not built by Pacha cutec and, it seems, was the work attributable to his successor, Tu-pac Inca Yupanqui, and perhaps it could even be later, from the time of Wayna Qhapaq, which is already the sixteenth century.