Ingapirca
500 CE – 1532 CE
Ecuador's most important archaeological site — an elliptical stone temple complex built atop an earlier Cañari sacred site, combining Cañari lunar worship with Inca solar religion. Its centrepiece, the Castillo (Temple of the Sun), is a masterwork of Inca dry-stone construction whose elliptical platform is astronomically aligned, marking the fusion of two distinct Andean civilizations in the decades before Spanish conquest.
Pre-ColumbianEarly MedievalMedieval
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