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Inca Sacrificial Altar (Q'enqo)

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Inca Sacrificial Altar (Q'enqo)

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Inca Sacrificial Altar (Q'enqo)

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Location: Cusco, Cusco, Cusco, Peru

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Matto

April 21, 2024

This is one of the most remarkable points, it is an underground chamber where there is a single stone from which tables, walls and floors were carved, all made of the same stone and smooth.

Finally, it was used to sacrifice people and animals and even embalm the corpses, that's not all, remains of ashes were also found, so it is believed that they were made into cults for ancestors.

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Björn

November 10, 2023

Here you actually walk under the huge rock and come to this sacrificial altar. Here, however, Coca leaves were not discarded, as is often the case, but rather people were sacrificed. Very interesting.

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Jan L Metzdorf

June 4, 2025

cusco is for sport people dealing with high altitude. from town you walk 3k into awesome area behind Christo blanco

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1. Plaza de Armas of Cusco – Cusco Cathedral loop from San Pedro

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