http://enperublog.com/2006/11/03/pachacutec/ All you could ever want to know about Peru Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://enperublog.com/2006/11/03/pachacutec/comment-page-1/#comment-16762 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:48:39 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=312#comment-16762 […] Inca Emperor Pachacutec conquered a vast area from Chile to Ecuador forming the Tahuantinsuyu. He then sent his son, Túpac […]

]]> http://enperublog.com/2006/11/03/pachacutec/comment-page-1/#comment-4624 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:15:44 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=312#comment-4624 […] to Ollantaytambo, a town that was part city, part fort and part rural retreat for the great Inca Pachacutec who ordered its construction. The Spanish followed, after themselves haven suffered heavy loses. […]

]]> http://enperublog.com/2006/11/03/pachacutec/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:26:21 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=312#comment-21 […] and in the Urubamba valley which descends into the Amazon, was build around 1450 in the time of Emperor Pachacutec. It was abandoned in the time of the Spanish conquest, not because the Spanish found it, but […]

]]> http://enperublog.com/2006/11/03/pachacutec/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:22:51 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=312#comment-20 […] Pachacútec, expander of the empire, ordered the site’s construction in the mid-1400’s. The complex took almost 100 years to complete with thousands of men. Many of the blocks were taken from as far as 32km away. Some blocks are the size of large buses and weigh hundreds of tons. No-one knows how they managed to move them, not even how they managed to cut the bricks with laser-precision. All that survives of the place is what the Spanish weren’t able to destroy – what they didn’t have the technology to destroy. What you see in my photos is a mere 20% of what once stood here. […]

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