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Inca Ruins of Ingapirca
 
© all photos by the author except # 1 &
3 (A. Dust)
The
Inca ruins of Ingapirca are Ecuador's best preserved pre-Colombian
site in the country.This complex was mostly a ceremonial site and it was known that the Inca
emperor Huayna Capac,
himself spent time there. These impressive
buildings, with the Sun temple or Castillo as
its focal point,
were built on a
pre-existing Cañari ceremonial site.
The Cañari nation was conquered by the
Incas after
a long and hard fight in the 1470's.
Apart from the outside ruins, the complex also boasts of a small
museum, exhibiting pieces found in excavations of the site
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