Huánuco Pampa, Huánuco Marka or Huánuco Viejo, Wanako Pampa, Wanuku Pampa or simply Huánuco is a large archaeological site in Peru in the Huánuco Region, Dos de Mayo Province, La Unión District. The r
Quadrangular walls of the Ushnu.
Partial view of Huánuco Pampa.
A kallanka is a typical building of the Inca architecture consisting of an elongated rectangular single room building hall with a gabled thatched roof. In the wider buildings the roof is supported by
Huánuco Pampa
…and the connecting walls are constructed from pirqa, fieldstone set in mud. The connecting walls on the eastern side of the central plaza is called the kallanka, large building made from high-quality pirqa masonry rather than cut and fitted stones. These large buildings may have functioned as barracks, counting…
A kallanka in Choquequirao
Incallaqta (Bolivia) – side gabled wall of the kallanka showing niches and windows.
View of Inkallaqta (Bolivia) with the kallanka on the back, one of the largest of the Inca empire. The wall on the right hand side had doors facing the plaza
Gable top of a house in Machu Picchu showing the stone nails