Tipon
It is the name of a town located in the south valley of Cusco, and in turn the name of one of the archaeological centers insignia of the hydraulic engineering of the Inca culture, due to its architectural characteristics is attributed its period of construction to the second half Of the XV century, more directly to the imperial period initiated by Pachakuteq, in spite of theory already discarded that it dated to a previous period, this based on the real comments of the Incas of Garcilaso de la Vega. Its terraces, a fine work in stone, compete with the great hydraulic work realized where the star is its main source to which cosmogonic interpretations are attributed to it, on the other hand terraces located in a zone concave of the mountain added to its stepped form, create microclimates, under these characteristics it is possible to attribute similar functionalities to those of the archaeological center of Moray, which describe a center of altitudinal adaptation of crops.
- Altitude: 3400 m
- Temperature: 10 ° C
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