Kallanka
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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
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
Shincal de Quimivil
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Shincal de Quimivil, or simply El Shincal, is the ruin of a pre-Columbian Inca city located near the town of Londres, Belén Department, in the Catamarca Province. Argentina. The Inca settlement coveri
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…before the battle of Cajamarca where Pizarro's less than 200 troops killed most of Atahualpa's 6,000 men garrison and took the Inca emperor captive. The Shincal de Quimivil Inca settlement in Northwestern Argentina had five kallankas, four of then bordering the haukaypata and one, the biggest, inside it, on the southern…
View of the Shincal settlement Catamarca Province, Argentina
The eastern flattened hill, note the stairway and the walled hilltop
The stairway to the top of one of the flattened hills
The ushnu at Shincal de Quimivil stands in the lower central part of the picture showing the stairway to its top. The eastern flattened hill with its access stairway is in the background