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Pukara of La Compañía

Coordinates: 34°04′S 70°41′W / 34.067°S 70.683°W / -34.067; -70.683
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Pucara de La Compañia, promaucae fortress, later used by Incas, located in La Compañia Mount, commune of Graneros, Chile. It is notable as the most southerly building that remains of the Inca Empire. It was declared a National Monument of Chile.

History

Qullasuyu, Inca suyu where the pucará was located.

There can be identified three moments of historical occupation of the pucará:

  • Between years 1380 and 1450, of archaeological data , the hill would have been in use, with purposes that they seem to relate to the resistance of the local population, promaucaes or picunche s, to the Inca invasion .
  • Most of the Inca structures and remains of the hill fits to the occupation, between the years 1430 and 1450, approximately.
  • Again the indigenous local population gave the last use to the fortress , trying to refuse itself to the conquest by Spain . Theproofs of this event that appear in the former chronicle s were those who guided to them archeologist s and they allowed to relocate the pucará in the recent years.

Architecture

Description

The vestiges of the pucará consist of the bases of 7 structures of circular plant , a major construction and other attached buildings that can be sites(places) of alertness. The flat summit of the hill is surrounded, in addition, with defensive perimeter walls .

Current situation

Cerro La Compañia was declared Chile National Monument for the Decree n º 1191 , March 11, 1992. In spite of it, these remains have neither a tourist suitable access, nor a control and care on the part of the authorities. An attitude that denotes little respect for the archaeological patrimony of the pucará is the existence of the great antenna of cellular telephony in one of the points of the summit of the Mount. The works of installation of this structure, realized in 1997, included a way and movements of land, which destroyed four meters of a defensive wall.

See also

34°04′S 70°41′W / 34.067°S 70.683°W / -34.067; -70.683

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