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Ingapirca is Ecuador's major Inca heritage site
left in the country. It boasts of an a
building intact,
the so-called Temple of the Sun or Castillo, which was erected in an
elliptical form, coinciding with the movement of the sun.
This complex was mostly a ceremonial site, used for worship and astronomy, which were one in the
Inca's world concept and it is known that the great Inca
emperor Huayna Capac,
himself spent time there. It is built upon an older Cañari site.
The Cañari nation was conquered by the
Incas after
a long and hard fight in the 1470's. |
