Sillustani
1200 CE – 1500 CE
A dramatic pre-Columbian cemetery on a peninsula in Lake Umayo near Lake Titicaca in the Peruvian Andes, famous for its chullpas — towering cylindrical stone funerary towers, some over 12 metres tall, in which the Colla people and later the Inca entombed their elite dead. The finest towers display stonework of extraordinary precision, their smooth curved surfaces built from massive, perfectly fitted blocks that rival the celebrated masonry of the Inca capital at Cusco.
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High MedievalPre-Columbian
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