Cusco’s National Institute of Culture (INC) workers found a ceremonial huaca in the archaeological complex of Salapunku when carrying out archaeological restoration and investigation works.
A quena inside a camelid’s skeleton was found in the huaca, which is located in the sector IV of the archaeological center on the kilomenter 83 of the Cusco-Machu Picchu railway.
The huaca is on a semicircular structure on the prehispanic path that goes by the right margin of the Vilcanota River towards Machu Picchu to the apu Wakaywillka, which according to investigation, was a sacred space for rituals and offerings to the apus in the valley.
Salapunku or ‘Door of the Room” has walls similar to those of Sacsayhuaman -of pre-Inca and Inca architecture- which could have been a fort for the attacks and possible invasions, besides from being the access control door to the Vilcanota Valley.
This year, Cusco’s INC is carrying out works of restoration, revaluation and archaeological investigation, elimination and extraction of surplus material resulting from landslides and erosions on the top of mountain La Veronica.
