The Inca’s hydro engineering masterpiece #shorts #peru #history

“Tipón is located 25 km from Cusco in a ravine high above the Cusco Valley, ranging in elevation from 10,700 to 13,000 feet. According to legend, the origins of Tipón can be traced to one of the royal gardens that Viracocha, the supreme God of the Incas, ordered to be built. While the Inca constructed the sophisticated settlement of Tipón around 1400 AD, the site’s prehistoric importance is well established and can be traced back to between 6,000 and 4000 B.C.” - Bryan Hill Two different constructions methods can be seen here - the rough stone style & the precision mortarless style. It appears the Inca found the foundations of the older mortarless style and built on top of it with their rough stone method & then retrofitted into a hydro engineering marvel. - Derek